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...Mavens' Kosher Court," once scheduled to open this winter, will not sling pastrami and pickles until after Passover, according to Dershowitz and local attorney Marcus Weiss, two of the several local businessmen in the venture. Others include Mitch Kapor of the Lotus software company, and attorney Harvey Silverglate...
...real estate around the world. He helped set up the Far East Stock Exchange in 1969 and then merged it with three similar operations in 1986 to form the Hong Kong Exchange. Critics say Li has run the operation as a club for a small group of Hong Kong businessmen. Reports have circulated, for example, that preferred investors have been able to buy new issues at artificially low prices...
...Lower East Side, street people hang around the temple, keeping warm near the fire and eating off paper plates. Volunteers help out with the cooking; neighbors and local businessmen contribute food and wood for the stove...
...include a small but highly visible minority of unruly beggars who cadge as much as $15 a day from passersby. Until the new law took effect in November, pushy panhandlers were the city's leading source of complaints. Mayor Charles Royer claims to have stacks of letters from visiting businessmen annoyed by Seattle's rowdy street people. Culling his own substantial collection of angry correspondence, Police Captain Jim Deschane quotes a local merchant: "Our employees are constantly accosted in our parking lot, and our customers are intimidated before coming into our store. We live and work in constant fear...
...also a historical and analytical work of impressive breadth and depth. Greider sees the past 100 years of U.S. financial history as a continuous battle between the holders of the wealth, including investors and bankers, and the people who borrow the money, such as farmers, businessmen and consumers. In his analysis, Greider takes a viewpoint that is heretical to Wall Street. Like the prairie Populists of the late 19th century, he argues that moderate inflation is beneficial to the common man. Economic growth is spurred by inflation as long as it does not get out of control. More important...