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...last tour stop--for which Wilson, Board of Trustees Chairman Nancy-Beth G. Sheerr '71 and RCAA Executive Director Mary M. Carty '74 flew to the University Club in San Francisco--drew about...
...pushed there by falling commodity prices that have been deeply affected by the turmoil in Asia. This in turn has affected machinery producers such as Case and Cummins Engine, whose profits fell steeply in the third quarter of the year. Then there is the so-called wealth effect. Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan warned of the dangers of removing more than $1.5 trillion in business and consumer wealth because of the market drop. Said the chairman: "We're bound to see a major impact in personal-consumption expenditures and housing...
...that included less hiring, and 57% expected to reduce capital spending significantly. Yet there was a buoyant sense that the U.S. would ride it out. "I don't think the economy is capable of having a deep downturn now if monetary and fiscal policies remain sound," says John Snow, chairman and CEO of transport giant CSX Corp., echoing the sentiments of many of his peers. "There is not a huge stock of inventories to work off. We've gone to a just-in-time type of economy. A quarter or two of shallow recession or reduced growth...
...justification for much of this welfare is that the U.S. government is creating jobs. Over the past six years, Congress appropriated $5 billion to run the Export-Import Bank of the United States, which subsidizes companies that sell goods abroad. James A. Harmon, president and chairman, puts it this way: "American workers...have higher-quality, better-paying jobs, thanks to Eximbank's financing." But the numbers at the bank's five biggest beneficiaries--AT&T, Bechtel, Boeing, General Electric and McDonnell Douglas (now a part of Boeing)--tell another story. At these companies, which have accounted for about...
...Philly is the way to go. Reeling from Tuesday's election and intent on broadening their appeal, the Republicans are pitching their 2000 convention tent squarely in traditional Democratic territory -- the northeast. "The first president of the next millennium will be nominated in the cradle of liberty," Republican Party Chairman Jim Nicholson said Thursday...