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...happens, many experts agree that the dollar must increasingly share the stage with the yen and the mark as a worldwide reserve currency. "There is little doubt that the dollar is in transition to a less dominant status in the global financial system," says David Hale, senior economist for Kemper Financial Services, based in Chicago. Investment guru Jimmy Rogers likens the situation to the pound's decline: "When sterling started losing its role as the world's reserve currency, especially after the Second World War, there was a sterling crisis every year. It was a constant and ongoing thing...
...investments for new homes, plants and machinery. "This is the first time since the outbreak of World War I that every nation on this planet has a capitalist economic system or a market- oriented economy either in place or about to happen," says David Hale, a senior economist for Kemper Financial Services. "But because of that we'll probably have much higher interest rates over the next two or three years...
...product changes." The San Francisco law firm of Littler, Mendelson, Fastiff, Tichy & Mathiason boasts of its 20 lawyers who work full time on workplace-violence cases; it provides its FORTUNE 500 clients with a training video that identifies warning signs and lists seven ways to prevent such incidents. The Kemper insurance companies in Long Grove, Illinois, offer one-day workshops (price: $250) twice a year and are preparing a video on how to drill so that, as one executive puts it, "even if people can't save the first victim, perhaps they can save three other people...
...Just a top-ten finish here and there scattered among 30 or 35 starts is usually enough to keep a player in the Top 125 on the money list...qualifying him for a return trip to the Tour, where he can again dazzle galleries by finishing eighth at the Kemper and eleventh at Greensboro...
Setting the stage for what could turn into a rancorous takeover battle, Kemper Corp.'s board of directors on Thursday rejected a $2.2 billion bid from GE Capital Corp., angering some shareholders who had been eyeing GE's $55-per- share offer. GE would not say whether it would make a higher...