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American financial markets offer both the stability and variety of opportunity that prudent investors crave. Wall Street analysts give foreign investors credit for a major helping hand in the five-year bull market, and well they should. Via the computerized linkages that now tie together the world's financial markets, overseas investors are gobbling up U.S. stocks at a $39 billion annual rate this year, adding to their previous holdings of $167 billion. In the first three months of 1987, the Japanese bought $3.5 billion in U.S. stocks, while the British spent $2.4 Says Byron Wien, domestic portfolio strategist...
Daryl Van Horne (Jack Nicholson), a newcomer to Eastwick, is everything the women crave, fear, pity, hate. He is, in other words, a man. In public, he snores like a boar. His jokes smell, and he does too. He is, he admits with the grin of a baby Hitler, "just your average horny little devil." With a capital D. Big Bad Beelzebub. But devilry in New England is not what it used to be. Women suspected of having sex with Satan are not burned at the stake; they are snubbed in the check-out line. And in an age when...
...until the second half of the book do the authors reach the heart of their argument and the most interesting material in their book. The Strategic Defense Initiative, they assert, is an impractical, useless project. Only its usefulness to various special interest groups keeps it alive: the Europeans crave the billion dollar high-tech defense contracts SDI will bring them; arms-controllers such as Paul Nitze want a billion dollar bargaining chip; and right-wingers led by Assistant Secretary of Defense Richard Perle see it as a billion dollar way to violate the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty and jettison...
...years following his return from Southeast Asia, North continued to crave action. After joining the NSC in 1981, he became known for his overt patriotism and his covert activities. North seemed to pop up at every trouble spot around the world: cheerleading for the contras in Honduras and stalking terrorists in Lebanon. He helped plan the invasion of Grenada, the secret mining of Nicaraguan harbors and the hijacking of the plane carrying the Achille Lauro terrorists. Later, North became the point man for the private network financing the Nicaraguan rebels...
...line telephone console as he studies flickering stock-market figures on a battery of video screens. Almost always clad in a dark three-piece suit, with the vest adorned by a gold watch chain, he continuously slurps coffee and information, the two fuels he seems to crave most...