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...While anti-Americanism has swelled up in other areas of French life, no one ever seemed to have anything against Mickey Mouse." I have been involved in Franco-American relations for years and have never seen French and Americans, from tourists to government officials, from cultural leaders to businessmen, so much on the same wavelength. Edmund van Gilder Consul General of the U.S. Marseilles...
After years of eye-popping damage awards and shortsighted industry practices, buyers of liability policies face crippling bills--if they can obtain coverage at all. The crisis is hampering the operations of countless businessmen, professionals and government officials. But in the end it affects everyone, since the exploding cost of insurance is inevitably passed on to consumers...
After eating paper-bag lunches, the manufacturers boarded buses to Capitol Hill to buttonhole legislators from their home states. So many Michiganders packed into the office of Democratic Senator Carl Levin that several of the businessmen had to perch on upended attaché cases. Levin warned them that "the whole spirit of Congress is to get away from regulation," but promised to take a careful look at the Danforth bill. Plaintiffs' attorneys, needless to say, oppose all tort-reform plans. They commonly accuse insurers of creating a sense of crisis to enact laws that would deny just compensation to victims...
Inflation seems so weak that many businessmen and economists think the Federal Reserve could allow interest rates to fall even further without risking a jump in prices. Says Edward Yardeni, chief economist for Prudential-Bache Securities: "Lower rates could deliver us into the golden land of zero inflation and 6% economic growth. So why not ease...
...Kidnaping is a crime in the U.S. The U.S. cannot deal with abductors as though it were dealing with businessmen...