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Audiences flock to the Bard when he plays outdoors...
...Chicago exchanges are betting that foreign traders will flock back to the U.S. through Globex. So far, the London and Paris exchanges have signed up to use the system; the Tokyo, Frankfurt, Hong Kong and Zurich exchanges are expected to follow suit. Says Globex chairman Leo Melamed: "This is a way to extend our market around the globe across all borders and time zones...
...three years to develop a scheme for ending the nuclear arms race. They needed six years to produce a master plan for reforming capitalism. But it has become an unending struggle for the men of the hierarchy to come up with a coherent policy on women to guide their flock of 58 million. The bishops are already into their ninth year of trying to agree on a pastoral letter, and the longer it takes, the more rancorous the debates become. Feminist lobbyists, antifeminist lobbyists, even a few bishops, proclaim the project a disaster and say no letter should be produced...
...where a third of the population lives below the poverty line, has an effective property-tax rate 66% higher than that of the well-to-do suburb of Farmington next door. Last year Hartford city manager Raymond Eugene Shipman proposed a payroll tax on the thousands of commuters who flock to the city's downtown office towers by day but flee by night. In the 1960s and early '70s, 15 major American cities had been granted such power by their state legislatures, which must approve municipal taxes. But as the legislatures filled with representatives of the burgeoning suburbs, major cities...
...Recruits flock in, but critics call it an autocratic cult...