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These are among the findings of a major national opinion survey conducted for TIME by the research firm of Yankelovich, Skelly and White, Inc., from May 12 through May 14.* The poll contained pleasant news for Reagan. His rating "as a leader you can trust" is virtually the same as Jimmy Carter's was at the same month of 1977. One key difference is that Reagan's level of approval has risen 9% since January (to 57%), while Carter's rating was on a downward slide. Majorities ranging from 71% to 52% agreed with the propositions that...
After a long period of corporate confusion, Kerkorian divided his holdings into two parts last year. He spun off his hotel and gambling interests, which include the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, into a separate company called MGM Grand Hotels Inc., and his movie properties into MGM Film Co. It was shortly after the two MGM companies were split that a fire took 84 lives last November at the MGM Grand...
...dabbled in gold mines and gasohol equipment. He asked to join his father's former radio syndication service and he tested the waters in politics. Last December the President's adopted son, 36, signed on as a vice president for marketing at Dana Ingalls Profile, Inc., of Burbank, Calif., a 35-employee aerospace supplier. Last week he said angrily he would abandon that career, after being criticized for using his father's name to seek defense contracts...
...watch over a potential foreign hot spot, to the elaborate computerized system that American Can Co. set up in 1978 to rank investment risks in some 70 different countries. Many smaller companies hire outside consultants like Chicago's Associated Consultants International and Boston's Arthur D. Little Inc. to provide political risk assessments. Amartic Ltd. was founded two years ago by Talib El-Shibib, a former Arab League Ambassador to the United Nations, to advise companies on political conditions in the Middle East. Argen Ltd. of London is a savvy European consulting group that offers a broad range...
Frost & Sullivan Inc., of New York, produces weighty monthly surveys of 61 countries, based on field reports from local correspondents. A yearly subscription to the firm's "World Political Risk Forecasts" costs $1,900, and clients include some 200 of the nation's largest corporations, including AT&T, Xerox, General Motors and General Electric...