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...well brothers intent on complicating the plot, Prewitt cuts through the lethargy of the first scenes with an energetic and mischievious performance. Michael Bierer as the blustering, bureaucratic mayor Hebble Tyson leans toward exaggeration in comparison with other characters, but his haughty huffing and sorrowful snorting lend a badly needed comic touch to scenes which would otherwise fall flat...
...Bodinat's view, is that the declining industries are not being replaced. "Capitalist economies have lost their flexibility," he charges. "In France, for example, it has become far too difficult to launch a new business." Governments often discourage entrepreneurs with mazes of administrative formalities. Banks hesitate to lend money for new ventures...
...half full. The U.S. embassy in Tehran has drawn up mass-evacuation plans in case the troubles grow worse. Foreign workers have been quitting the country, and almost overnight Iran's five-star credit rating on the international capital markets has disappeared. Says one U.S. banker: "You don't lend when the tanks are in Constitution Square...
...small band of protesters outside the hotel charged that the convention was nothing more than an attempt to lend respectability to Moon's cause. Their suspicion is well-founded...
...Treasury and the Federal Reserve Board will take to uphold the greenback. The key moves: 1) raising the federal discount rate by a full point to a record 9.5%, the sharpest jump in 45 years; 2) reducing by $3 billion the funds that U.S. banks have available to lend; 3) amassing $30 billion in foreign currencies, nearly all borrowed, to support dollar prices on foreign exchanges; 4) greatly increasing U.S. sales of gold...