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Rejecting the mini and not knowing what to invest in, many women just wore their wardrobes for another season -- with perhaps a small hike at the hem. This summer very short lengths will continue to be seen. But for fall, when most women make their serious purchases, skimpy skirts seem a poor bet. In addition to the rebuff on principle, women shunned the mini for economic reasons. "Especially since the October crash, people are more cautious," says Karen Guthrie, 30, a title-insurance company manager in Los Angeles. "Now even yuppies have budgets." In a fit of fashion passion, Susan...
...issue of whether to invest in firms operating in South Africa offers the ultimate example of the difficulties of trying to demonstrate a serious concern for moral standards. The problems of South Africa are far too tragic and inflammatory to escape bitter controversy, whatever a university decides to do. Student activists will claim that officials who oppose total divestment are insensitive to the injustices of apartheid, while conservative critics insist that selling stock is only an empty and expensive gesture to appease irresponsible radicals. In this atmosphere, divestment can easily acquire such emotional, symbolic importance that is difficult to examine...
...School of Economics, plugs Jackson into the business community and labor unions. She is on leave from the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees. One of Jackson's most talked about proposals comes from O'Cleireacain: the suggestion that the Government force public-pension- fund managers to invest $60 billion a year in Government-backed securities for the purpose of building bridges, roads and schools. She has toned down Jackson's economic proposals, nudging him more toward moderate positions on world trade...
Even more cruelly ironic is the tax proposal of the Peterson plan. Peterson advises raising taxes only in a manner that would discourage consumption and encourage savings and investment. In the tradition of Reagan and his supplyside philosophies, this would shift the tax burden from the rich to the poor, assuming that the rich will invest it in ways that build the economy...
...three researchers will investigate the problem faced by foreign countries that wish to invest in the oil market. Since oil is always bought and sold in dollars, foreign countries must second-guess both exchange rate fluctuations and the oil market itself, Dominguez said...