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...Louis abuses Toronto goalie Felix Potvin for three goals in 49 seconds in its 5-2 victory. Page...
...goods from cars to cameras and thereby heat up inflation. That in turn may force Washington to raise interest rates, jacking up the cost of loans and mortgages and holding the entire U.S. economy hostage to the currency's problems. "We are gradually losing control of our own destiny," Felix Rohatyn, a senior partner at the investment firm Lazard Freres, told Congress. Moreover, he says, "the dollar's decline undercuts American economic leadership and prestige. It is perhaps the single most dangerous economic threat we will face in the long term because it puts us at the mercy of other...
...agreement still seems likely, but the question then will be whether it spells out a coherent Mexican financial policy. Felix Rohatyn, a senior partner at Lazard Freres & Co. in New York and an unrivaled expert on financial bailouts--he headed the one that saved New York City from bankruptcy in the mid-1970s--complains that ``Mexico hasn't come up with any strategy at all'' and adds, ``I`m very worried.'' Financiers complain in particular that Mexico has not decided what to do about the peso--whether to let its price float or try to stabilize it within some range...
After that meeting, the opposing team, the Felix S. Cohen team, issued a memo stating that the meeting "[involves] violations of several rules of the competition." In response to that allegation, Duhl ordered that there be no more outside conversation on the case--a rule Hart would break...
...these debacles about not + getting stuck on labels. But for Americans, there is also a cautionary tale in drawing pompous conclusions about the nation's economic security when a few Japanese companies invest in premier American properties. When the Japanese did just that in the late 1980s, investment banker Felix Rohatyn wrote, "What is at stake is not only the loss of our position as the leader of the Western democracies, but the loss of our independence of action both in economic and in foreign policy." Turns out it was just about making deals -- and perhaps not very good ones...