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Across the continent, meanwhile, Mitsubishi is struggling to survive the New York City real estate bust, which saw commercial-vacancy rates rise from 8% to nearly 14% over the past five years. To reduce its interest expense, the Japanese company hopes to renegotiate the $1.3 billion mortgage it acquired in 1989. (That was the heady period when another Japanese firm, the Minoru Isutani Group, acquired California's famous Pebble Beach golf course for $840 million, which it sold at a 40% loss two years ago.) Mitsubishi threatened to default on its loan last week, which some analysts...
Lauren's publication is nothing more than a newfangled collection of buzzwords. The cover of November's premiere issue features text-art including AIDS, the Internet, Sex, Phat, Apathy, Slacker, Segregation, Lollapallooza, Beavis, Butthead, Real World, Influential, Multicultural, Promiscuous, Activists, Brady Bunch, Woodstock, Skeptical, Cynical, Bust, Boom, Driven, Idealist and Hype...
...Pakpahan is the sixth official of the Indonesian Prosperity Trade Union to be convicted in connection with workers' riots that wrecked several factories and blocks of shops in Medan earlier this year. Sixteen of his colleagues are still on trial in what looks to many like an attempt to bust a union that the authoritarian Indonesian government views as dangerously independent. U.S. officials "deplored" Pakpahan's sentence and said Clinton would discuss the case and other "problems in the human- rights area," including the closure of three influential publications, with Indonesia's President Suharto this week...
...these are efforts to bust up the system," says Linda Darling- Hammond, co-director of the National Center for Restructuring Education, Schools and Teaching at Columbia University's Teachers College. "Right now we are trying to do a once-in-a-century reform of education. This is a transforming era. These efforts reflect the frustration people have with a perceived public-school bureaucracy that is very, very entrenched in a way of doing things that cannot meet our needs in the future...
...letter notes how often each incumbent voted to bust a filibuster in the last two years. The perfect scorers were all Democrats. The bottom three, all in the GOP minority, were Wyoming Sens. Alan Simpson and Malcolm Wallop and North Carolina's Jesse Helms...