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...what occurred when members of the U.S. Corporate Council on South Africa, an elite group of American business executives, met in London two weeks ago with their South African counterparts. While the participants, who included the chief executive officers of General Motors and Citibank, have kept a tight lid on the proceedings, it is assumed that strategies to hasten racial reform were discussed. Meanwhile another group, representing the 186 U.S. companies that subscribe to a code of fair employment practices known as the Sullivan Principles, sent a telex to the South African government urging Botha to "lower tensions...
...increasingly troubling economic reality: the tensions caused by growing economic divergence among the 12 countries that use the euro. That is a sharp reversal from the 1990s, when candidates for the single currency moved aggressively to bring their economies in line by slashing budget deficits and keeping a tight lid on spending to lower inflation. At the time, advocates of the single currency argued that it would give a boost to Europe's economy and help make it more competitive. Now Europe has entered a period of "deconvergence," in the jargon of some economists, as spendthrift habits creep back...
...kill weapons were mere political posturing. The House rejected four major weapons systems, knowing that the Senate was certain to insist on restoring them. This was done so that in the resulting "compromise" the House conferees could agree to revive the systems only after receiving assurances that a lid would be placed on their costs. This tactic resulted in continued funding, for example, for the AMRAAM, a radar-guided Air Force and Navy missile that has technical problems, is more than two years behind schedule and is costing about twice the original estimates (now about $450,000 a missile...
...similar proposal for Northern Europe. With an eye to the likely deployment of U.S. cruise missiles in Belgium and the Netherlands, the document also suggested that the U.S. and the Soviet Union refrain from stationing nuclear weapons in nations that do not already have them and put a lid on existing nuclear arsenals. Said a senior Western diplomat in Sofia: "There's nothing much here that's different from what the Soviets are already proposing...
...that had gone a little bit of left-center, who knows?” Walsh said. We might have got a lid off [of the scoring...