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BUSINESS: Women are moving up fast and heading for the top jobs in U.S. firms 64 From banking to manufacturing, executive suites are opening up to women. While relatively few of them have yet reached the upper levels of America's largest corporations, thousands are advancing through the ranks of middle management. Says one executive recruiter: "More and more companies realize that a good manager is a good manager regardless...
...danger of an Iranian blockade has lent special importance to Oman, which lies on the strait's southern shore. An Omani naval base at Ras Masandam monitors all ship movements through the channel, while the sultanate's fast and flashy Province-class patrol ships, each armed with eight radar-guided Exocet missiles, are on constant alert, occasionally shooing away Iranian intruders. Qaboos has also seen to it that Oman's 21,500-man volunteer army, navy and air force do not lack for equipment. He lavishes 46% of the national budget on the military and keeps it supplied with...
...other side of Ulster's bloody equation, the outlawed Irish Republican Army claimed responsibility for the murders of a policeman, a militiaman and a businessman, which were carried out in the seven days since the signing of the accord. WEST GERMANY New Life in the Fast Lane...
Unlike most other countries with modern, high-speed motorways, West Germany allows drivers to zip along as fast as they choose on more than 5,000 miles of autobahn. So when the Bonn government earlier this year suggested that a nationwide limit of 62 m.p.h. (100 k.p.h.) was a possibility, the outcry was long and loud. Now the danger appears to have passed. In the face of noisy protests, the Cabinet of Chancellor Helmut Kohl last week voted to keep the autobahn free and fast...
...sexes have learned new ways of working together. Women have started taking more risks and competing more aggressively. Says Cathleen Black, publisher of USA Today: "Unfortunately, for a long time women were just grateful to get a position. Men, on the other hand, assumed that they were on the fast track." Women managers have also developed a more relaxed style, in contrast to the harsh manner of some of their predecessors. One reason for that change: men are becoming more comfortable with the new relationships...