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...increased exports of Georgia pecans and carpets. He was accused of absenteeism during his years as mayor -- "Globetrotter Andy," Maddox calls him. But Young says he was using his international contacts to bring jobs into the state or find buyers for its products. "Last summer I took 30 small businessmen to Jamaica, Trinidad and Barbados, and we came back with $134 million in contracts...
...period of strict economic austerity, gangs of kidnapers are bidding to become Brazil's richest citizens. More than two dozen people, mostly businessmen, have been abducted and held for ransom in Rio de Janeiro so far this year. Last week brought the third in six days...
That is what businessmen and officials in the U.S. are hoping for too. Two- way trade across the border last year totaled almost $170 billion. Washington hopes Canada will not break up and does not think it will. But if it does, the Bush Administration is prepared to live with whatever arrangement Ottawa and Quebec can agree on. Washington's biggest concern is that the new Canadian entity retain its economic health. Like most Americans, officials in Washington seem to think Canada is such a stable, prosperous and rational society that it will resolve its problems sensibly...
...major change since the late 1960s, when Quebec separatism first became a serious political force, is that today no one questions Quebec's potential ability to survive as an independent country. The province's economic dynamism and cultural solidarity have given its politicians and businessmen a remarkable degree of self-confidence. Still, many participants in the debate do not believe a final split need occur. "When you come right down to it," says Alain Dubuc, an editor of the Montreal daily La Presse, "Quebeckers don't want to separate. What we need is a simplification of the relationship." Dubuc envisions...
...that before they enter the earthly paradise, they may have to pass through a purgatory of inflation and unemployment. They are also concerned that they may prove to be easy pickings for predatory Westerners, or Wessis in G.D.R. parlance. Certainly, the Wessis are coming. Hotels are packed with Western businessmen eager to cut deals, whether the object of desire is a state-owned company, retail floor space, or a summer home on the Baltic...