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...anyone who has dropped a dinner plate knows that ceramics do not. And a flexible material has a big advantage over a brittle one if it is to be coiled around an electromagnet. Says Osamu Horigami, chief researcher at Toshiba's Energy Science and Technology Laboratory: "To get a magnet or coil or even a wire we could use with complete confidence could take another five years." Agrees Hulm: "It will take extraordinary engineering to solve the brittleness problem...
...increase of 115% over the same period in 1985. Two attractions: Spain's low labor costs, which run 15% less than the European average, and the country's large population of consumers (39 million). Says Courtenay Worthington, Citibank Espana's general manager: "Spain is becoming a magnet for foreign investment. Many companies are putting up money, and those that aren't are wondering if they should...
...former President Camille Chamoun has long since lost track of exactly how many times his enemies have tried to kill him. As the senior Christian Maronite leader in Lebanon, Chamoun is a magnet for political assassins. Last week would-be killers struck again -- and failed again...
...Incrementally yet relentlessly, Harvard today has become a national magnet, a model for imitation, and a target. Moreover, the trans-Atlantic orientation in 1936 has in 1986 become more widely international," said David Riesman '31, Ford Professor of Social Sciences Emeritus...
...This comfortable arrangement, however, did not sit well with British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, who feared that London was losing ground to low-cost, high-volume centers like Wall Street. In 1983 her aides negotiated the ground rules for deregulation in the hope of turning the Exchange into a magnet for international investment. That goal fits handily with the increasingly round-the-clock nature of stock trading, in which international securities firms hand portfolios back and forth unceasingly between New York City, London and Tokyo...