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...loans to insiders for the purchase of stock in institutions that Abedi wanted to control from behind the scenes. In general such loans would never be repaid. According to the records, $476 million from a B.C.C.I. bank in the Cayman Islands and $308 million from International Credit & Investment Co. Ltd., a B.C.C.I. holding company in the Caymans, were funneled to fake shareholders for purchases of stock in transactions similar to the First American shuffle...
...TRASH CAN SINATRAS: CAKE (Go! Discs Ltd./London). Nice name, guys. But you already knew that. Actually, these five English lads lay down an excellent brand of pub pop: simple, insinuating melodies, lyrics with propulsive good humor. Has the guy from Hoboken heard...
...almost nothing about him. Only now is a more detailed profile emerging -- and its shape is strange and sometimes contradictory. Tyminski slipped out of Poland in 1969, apparently on a tourist visa, and eventually reached Canada, where he studied computer science. In 1975 he founded his own company, Transduction Ltd., which makes computer systems for factories and ^ power plants. Traveling to Peru in 1982, he stayed on for six years, eventually starting a cable TV company. There he met his wife Graciela and also apparently underwent a kind of spiritual transformation among the Peruvian Indians...
...mock Montrachet is probably reaching retailers through "gray-market" sales that bypass the U.S. distribution system, according to Wilson Daniels Ltd., DRC's American distributor, which denies any connection to the fakes. The counterfeiters produced a remarkable copy of a legitimate DRC bottle, perhaps by using a desktop computer. But a sharp-eyed Japanese consumer noticed that the vineyard designations on his bottles of Montrachet, vouching for the wine's authenticity, actually listed the name of a DRC red wine, and alerted Wilson Daniels. The U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms is investigating...
...insurance and inspection regulations that once hobbled sales. Some European car executives even speak of "positive discrimination" from an officialdom that is eager to appear receptive. For boosting imports, BMW has won an award from the Ministry of Trade and Industry. Says Peter Woods, president of Rover Japan Ltd.: "It's a great market, and we're all making massive progress...