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...amount ultimately saved for retirement. Congress might better allow IRAs to be pledged as collateral on education loans and first-home mortgages. Any tinkering should focus on how to get people to put more into IRAs (perhaps by raising the $2,000 annual allowable contribution, even if the excess were not deductible) rather than on ways to let them take money...
Airline executives hope to escape any heavy-handed Government interference in the buying and selling of carriers. But they will first have to allay growing fears that the excess baggage of buyout loans may not be good for air travelers. "Safety is the bottom line, and we know how to achieve it," says Benjamin Cosgrove, a Boeing senior vice president. "The need is for mechanics and inspectors with a real desire for safety." But if the airlines seem unwilling or unable to deliver the level of assurance that passengers want, politicians will rush to do it for them...
...glimpse of the moguls holding court in the Polo Lounge at the Beverly Hills Hotel, Hollywood's main products seem to be glamour and glitz. But the motion-picture business is a vital U.S. industry, one of America's strongest competitors against foreign economic rivals. Hollywood, despite its native excess and extravagance, will reap an estimated $8 billion from U.S. box-office and home-videocassette revenues this year. All told, the entertainment business ranks as the second largest net U.S. exporter, after the aerospace industry...
...more than 500, as it happens. By contributing to the 1989 New York City survey, about 3,500 serious eaters got free copies of the guide, as well as anonymous ego trips. That guide sold in excess of 200,000 copies and was bought in bulk by some 300 corporations to hand out to favored customers. Over the years, the surveys have earned "several millions," admits Zagat, whose possible future projects include a theater survey, a restaurant guide for kids, a telephone-access national data bank of restaurant information. And what about, um, Paris? "We may do other places...
Never mind country dachas or four-door Ladas. Soviet authorities figure the best incentive for greater agricultural yields is U.S. dollars or British pounds or German marks. Under an experimental program announced last week, the government will pay foreign cash to growers on state-run farms for excess harvests of wheat and other crops. The hard cash will enable farmers to purchase goods that no amount of rubles can buy, such as sophisticated farm equipment -- or videotape recorders...