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Other U.S. firms are trying to enter or expand in Asia by forming new joint ventures or buying pieces of debt-burdened local companies. Motorola, for instance, has recently acquired 51% of South Korea's Appeal Telecom. That strengthens its competitive position against giant Samsung...
...Bluford Putnam, president of CDC Investment Management Corp., the U.S. subsidiary of a giant French-based money-management concern, Caisse des Depots et Consignations, strongly disagrees. His scenario: the countries of "Euroland," as the 11-nation currency bloc is being called, will focus more than ever on pumping up their domestic economies, which are suffering from slow growth and high unemployment. Though the new European Central Bank will officially be independent of any national government, political leaders of the 11 countries will be pressing the bank to lower interest rates and keep them down, in coordination with the U.S. Federal...
...decade's boom. A survey released last month by U.S. Trust found that the wealthiest 1% of Americans say they gave away an average of 8% of their after-tax income in 1997, up from 5% in 1993. Says Paul Schervish, a philanthropy expert at Boston College: "A sleeping giant is awakening...
During her middle school days in Glover, Vt., she always loved traveling to arch-rival Barton's larger facility, a giant leap up from Glover's tiny gym, a converted town hall...
...losing Leon Higginbotham we have lost a giant oak, and we are left with an enormous gap in the landscape of the nation," he said. "He was a powerful presence and voice, a voice that has influenced our legal and judicial world for decades...