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...Corporation today includes the same sorts of men it has for the last 100 years--wealthy, successful middle aged, and white. The board tends to be dominated by lawyers and businessmen, but the changes from time to time, with professors, doctors, and clergymen taking their turn...
...suspicions about the extent of the danger to the ozone, he is treading very carefully, mindful of the enormous caution with which the government is approaching the issue. Clamping down on the production of certain types of gasses in, for instance, the aerosol industry could draw a backlash from businessmen...
...best defense: economic prosperity. He plans to deal with the one truly dark cloud, the deficit (projected at $174 billion this year) largely by ignoring it. In his Labor Day opener in California, he never even mentioned the word. Asked about the deficit two days later by businessmen at the Economic Club of Chicago, the President blandly replied that economic growth would produce higher revenues. To restrain congressional spending, Reagan again advocated a constitutional amendment to require a balanced budget, even though he has yet to propose one of his own. Taxes, Reagan maintained, should be raised only...
...Atlantic and Arctic coasts. Mulroney will also overhaul the Foreign Investment Review Agency, a 1974 Trudeau creation that monitors companies wishing to do business in Canada to ensure that their activities are in the country's interest. FlRA's regulations, however, drove many foreign businessmen away; in the past three years, U.S. investment in Canada declined by $3.7 billion. Mulroney plans to turn FIRA into more of an investment promoter than a nationalistic watchdog. Says Charles Doran, director of Johns Hopkins' Center of Canadian Studies: "The form will be there, but the teeth will be gone...
...Holy brothers have promoted their clothes to a new generation of fitness-minded businessmen. All the Boss ads feature a tall, square-jawed model who looks like a health-club regular. "We are completely aware that 70% of men's clothing decisions are made by females," says Uwe. The company also has recruited such top athletes as Björn Borg, the five-time Wimbledon tennis champion, and Jürgen Hingsen, the world-record holder and Olympic silver medalist in the decathlon, to wear the Boss line...