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...agreement these days is that you don't do the telling in bed. Says a Seattle secretary: "Never in the bedroom. You can't make management decisions there." Among sufferers, there is a feeling that women are more moral and honest than men about confessing to the disease. Says Fran Simon, a p.r. woman for a Philadelphia hospital: "I sure as hell wouldn't want it on my conscience, passing the disease on to somebody." But a quick admission amounts to a warning bell that scares off potential mates. "It was a dilemma every time I met someone new," says...
Another crucial policy issue facing all nations is the proper role of government in revitalizing industry and promoting technology. At the Versailles summit, French President François Mitterrand urged that governments take the lead in planning the areas of technology that should be pursued and in financing those ventures. In the U.S., Felix Rohatyn, a partner in New York City's Lazard Freres investment banking firm, has called for a new Reconstruction Finance Corporation that would disburse government loans to help rebuild America's industrial base. Critics of this kind of national industrial planning argue, however, that...
...François Vannereau Besanqon, France...
...matter matter how political leaders may try to disguise it, the devaluation of a nation's currency always reflects an embarrassing failure of economic policy. President François Mitterrand was warned by his advisers a month ago that the feeble French franc's pegged level within the European Monetary System could no longer be defended on world currency markets. Yet his pride kept him from admitting this painful reality until after the seven-nation Versailles summit conference. With its lavish displays of fireworks, fountains and nonstop pageantry, that diplomatic spectacular may in many ways have represented Socialist...
MasterCard and Visa are counting heavily on that type of consumer reaction. Says Fran Schall, a Visa vice president: "This will be a status symbol for many customers. It will be very important to pull it out at a business lunch, especially when colleagues may not have the same card." Adds MasterCard President Russell E. Hogg: "Recognition is one of the greatest marketing tools in America, and the gold card is recognized as prestige...