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...Chinese, and they are taking it apart rivet by rivet and shipping it back to . their country, where they will rebuild it to help satisfy China's insatiable industrial appetite. Thought to have expanded at a torrid rate of 13% in 1993, China's economy has been the fastest growing in the world for two years...
...however, as the city ricochets through its biggest boom since the Frank-and-Dino Rat Pack days of the '50s and '60s -- the tourist inflow has nearly doubled over the past decade, and the area remains among America's fastest growing -- the hypereclectic 24-hour-a-day fantasy-themed party machine no longer seems so very exotic or extreme. High-tech spectacle, convenience, classlessness, loose money, a Nikes-and-T-shirt dress code: that's why immigrants flock to the U.S.; that's why some 20 million Americans (and 2 million foreigners) went to Vegas in 1992. "Las Vegas exists...
...deficit reduction and the North American Free Trade Agreement. Then came a global trade agreement that may help boost U.S. exports in the long run. And last week the government reported that Americans were buying existing homes at an annual rate of 4.21 million units in November, the fastest pace ever. Now Clinton is about to get a windfall: 1994 is likely to be the year in which the reluctant recovery finally kicks into gear. When TIME gathered six leading economists to assess the 1994 outlook, there was not a Cassandra among them: they foresaw the strongest U.S. growth since...
...most controversial parts of the accord is the section covering the financial-services industry, now one of the fastest-growing parts of world trade. While banks, insurers, securities firms and lawyers in the U.S. and Europe argued for access to restricted markets in Japan and Southeast Asia, those countries fought to keep them out. Meanwhile, the debate over "intellectual property" mostly pitted the developed against the developing world. GATT's new language for patents and copyrights gives the developed countries better weapons to fight piracy and counterfeiting of Cartier watches, Madonna videos or Lotus spreadsheet software -- an epidemic problem...