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...steel, utility, and other pollution-heavy industries figure that they will save 10% to 35% of their compliance costs. Du Pont predicts that the bubble policy will reduce annual pollution-control expenses at its 52 largest plants from $136 million to $55 million. Big companies have estimated that environmental control accounts for 77% of their federal regulatory costs...
...something of an irony that he is remembered chiefly for his Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects, an informal, even gossipy collection of biographical studies of the great and near great of Italian art. This boxed three-volume re-edition, translated by Gaston Du C. de Vere (Abrams; 2323 pages; $225), is of high quality on the inside with gemlike tip-ins, though a touch tacky on the outside with spines of imitation leather. Real cloth would have been classier...
...membres du Syndicat Libre des travailleurs de Roumanie...
...Johnson & Johnson's plant in Tehran, which made baby products, was expropriated in August. GM still claims a minority interest in a Tehran auto factory, but it has been run by Iranians since GM pulled out the last five Americans and a Swiss a year ago. Last December Du Pont closed its fiber plant in Isfahan...
...reality that women are rising all around them-challenging them, changing their companies and generally shaking things up. Men at the very top are pressing this revolution. Even in the most encrusted industries, chief executives like Bethlehem Steel's Lewis Foy, Equitable Life's Coy Eklund, Du Font's Irving Shapiro and many others are telling their troops to find and hire and promote women. Resistance persists down in the middle-management trenches, but it is crumbling...