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...overaged, overweight, underemployed and sometimes already married. One woman recalled an escort who had "dyed bright-orange hair," while another said she was matched with "a man who had a criminal record." For such bottom-drawer Romeos, Amram allegedly charged anywhere from $1,250 to $20,000, far in excess of New York's $250 price limit on social-referral services. Amram's response: "I never break the law." The attorney general's lawsuit seeks restitution of any overcharges and an end to Amram's matchmaking in New York...
...under Chapter 11, no one expected the investment firm to rise from the ashes. In an industry that operates on trust and good faith, Drexel had exhausted its reserves. The move meant that Drexel, whose financial wizardry reshaped corporate America and ushered in an age of runaway debt and excess, will swiftly liquidate its business. The 152-year-old titan -- with 5,300 employees and $3.6 billion in assets -- will vanish almost overnight in the biggest failure in Wall Street history...
Doesn't anyone have a kind word for Wall Street's gilded '80s? The new decade is only six weeks old, and already stores are piled high with books that portray the past ten years as a sink of avarice and excess. The melodramatic titles depict the American free-enterprise system as overrun by barbarians and liars, ambition and greed. And readers are lapping it all up. Just as they reveled in stories of the rich and famous during the past decade, today's inquiring minds are hungry for colorful tales about the pratfalls of the mighty...
...market share on the Continent is likely to rise from its current 11% level to 25% by 1994. "The battleground here will be every bit as bloody as in the U.S. in 1981-82," says Angel Perversi, managing director of General Motors Espana. "The Japanese are going to add excess capacity. The only question is who is going to lose...
...inflationary because the G.D.R., like other East European countries, suffers from acute concealed inflation -- huge amounts of paper money and no goods to buy. Even a replacement at current black market rates of 7 or even 10 to 1 would be like mainlining heroin. Before any monetary unification, the excess purchasing power represented by those East marks has to be mopped up and a better balance of supply and demand established. One way would be for East Germany to destroy savings by a radical currency reform...