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...Tron escaped from Saigon to San Jose in 1982, no bank would take a chance on his business prospects. Do lacked a credit history, had no money and spoke no English. Today, however, the 31-year-old refugee publishes a Vietnamese-language newspaper, tools around town in a silver Jaguar and has started plans to build a shopping center. The reasons for his rapid rise: long hours of work, plenty of thrift and $4,800 in start-up capital from an unconventional source. Like thousands of other immigrants, the budding entrepreneur tapped an ethnic loan club for his seed money...
...California in 1977. We were putting the blizzard of daily life on hold, looking forward to a dose of raw sublime that coincided with our anniversary." Monette comes across as a trendy Southern California transplant. There is lots of eating out in fashionable restaurants, foreign travel and a Jaguar whose transmission frequently does not work. While conscientiously caring for the dying Roger, Monette works on a film script titled The Manicurist. He reads Plato and writes a novelization of Arnold Schwarzenegger's movie Predator...
...precisely how much money he makes because, as he puts it, "there's a lot of poverty on the reservation, and I don't want any hard feelin's. But I made in the six figures, well into the six figures last year." He owns a 1988 Jaguar, a boat and a half-million-dollar house...
Privatization has paid off handsomely in Britain, where 16 major state-owned enterprises, including Jaguar and Rolls-Royce, have been returned to the business sector since Thatcher first took office in 1979. By and large, the companies have prospered. Since it came to power last year, the Chirac government in Paris has sold 25 companies, including the merchant bank Paribas, the telecommunications giant CGE and the large commercial bank Societe Generale. The idea has started to catch on elsewhere. In Portugal, where state businesses have sucked $13 billion in operating losses and subsidies from the economy since the leftist revolution...
Although in general The Jaguar Smile ignores the plight of the Nicaraguan middle class, Rushdie does make one anomalous attempt to critically evaluate the closing of La Prensa, Nicaragua's main opposition newspaper. While he does not support this move, Rushdie asserts that the government should not be condemned for it. If we look at the broader picture of the country's civil liberties, he argues, the Sandinistas come off looking not nearly so bad as it is portrayed by the Reagan Administration...