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...Paris Bourse is now the hottest stock exchange in Europe. Its stock index has risen 80% since the beginning of 1978, a period during which the New York Stock Exchange's Dow Jones industrial average mostly wandered between 700 and 900. Moreover, the number of people owning stock on the Bourse has doubled to 2 million. French companies raised some $2 billion through stock offerings in 1978 and 1979, four times the amount of the preceding two years...
...under the weight of diamond and emerald rings, Pam insists that she taught her girls all the social graces: "You might say it was a type of charm school." Buyers, many of them female, came from miles around to buy Pamorabilia and get her autograph (price: $2). Among the hottest items at the auction: oven timers, an electric vibrator pillow and a crushed-velvet tiger-striped bedspread with matching curtains. The sale netted several thousand dollars...
...lipstick, lingerie and dresses, is inside the public toilet two blocks from the Bolshoi Theater. On a side street near the Moscow Planetarium, fartsovshchiki (black marketeers) have set up an underground supermarket, dealing in everything from gin to chewing gum, jeans and Western pop records. One of the hottest selling items in any market is information. Some hustlers charge one or two rubles for "a sentence." The mysterious sentence: a valuable tip-off that an item in short supply will be delivered to a certain shop the following...
...come signs that Japan is looking to add yet another scalp to its lengthening collection of industrial trophies -the $4.8 billion U.S. production of integrated circuits, the hottest and most highly competitive field of advanced industrial technology. The worldwide semiconductor market is expected to soar to $100 billion annually by the end of the century. Moreover, the industry's key product, the confetti-size sliver of silicon known as the microchip, is revolutionizing everything from giant computers to tiny home appliances, making possible a whole new generation of low-cost machines that can "think" and "talk." Says Electronics Analyst...
...late in coming, businesses increasingly find it necessary to set up their own writing programs. It is not merely that secretaries tend not to know how to spell. M.B.A.s with degrees from prestigious colleges cannot write clear letters, memos or reports. "Communications training is one of the hottest areas in the corporate field today," says Nate Rosenblatt, a vice president of a new and thriving New Jersey-based company called Learn Inc. One of Learn's big pedagogic sellers-to personnel...