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...same time some consumers are willing to spend lavishly on everything from Perrier to Porsches. Spending oases still exist, for example, in conspicuous-consumption California. Ross Gilbert, owner of Beverly Hills Mercedes-Benz, has plenty of customers willing to put down $45,000 for a new 450 SLC. In the first four months of the year, Gilbert sold more than 55 new cars, a record. Says Bijan Pakzad, the owner of a prosperous men's boutique on Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills, where shirts can cost $180: "The stores that will do well will be the very, very expensive...
FICTION: Falling in Place, Ann Beattie Doctor Fischer of Geneva or the Bomb Party, Graham Greene ∙ Life Before Man, Margaret Atwood Morgan's Passing, Anne Tyler Neighbors, Thomas Berger Preparations for the Ascent, Gilbert Rogin ∙ The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four, and Five, Doris Lessing
...postwar period. They consequently see no need to borrow funds at the still relatively high rates so as to expand capacity or hire new workers. General Electric Chairman Reginald Jones predicts that the prime rate will sink to 12% or 13% before investment picks up. Explains Gilbert Heebner, chief economist at the Philadelphia National Bank: "It was like 20% was some magic threshold. Borrowers simply stopped borrowing. Even small independent businessmen like farmers chose to liquidate their crops rather than borrow money...
PREPARATIONS FOR THE ASCENT by Gilbert Rogin...
...England's largest government-owned companies. In return, the New York firm he is leaving will be compensated by receiving up to $4.1 million. Members of Parliament denounced the indemnity plan as "monstrous" and "farcical." One M.P. compared it to something straight out of a Gilbert and Sullivan operetta...