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...partners in the firm of Cart M. Loeb, Rhoades and Company established the Loeb University Professorship in 1955 in honor of Carl M. Loeb, the founder of the international merchant banking firm...
...Islamic fervor of the Shi'ite newcomers worries the more tolerant Sunnis. Posters of Khomeini now hang incongruously next to credit-card signs on shop windows, while ever growing numbers of women wear head scarves. An edgy rug merchant no longer offers browsers sherry, but instead asks, "Iced tea?" The beverage arrives laced with whisky...
...measures a business in terms of its workers or annual sales. For a wholesale merchant to be considered small, for instance, the company must have no more than 500 employees. Painting or plumbing contractors must have revenues of less than $7 million. A fishing company will qualify if sales are below $2 million. The small firms will be eligible this year for $3.5 billion in SBA loans, up 3% from 1983. But while 99% of American businesses are small, the remaining 1% generate about half of all corporate revenues...
...perils of materialism has ever been available to out-of-towners. For from that unpromising situation emerges a romantic comedy that is as salty and bracing as a plunge in the surf. Whenever Daryl Hannah, as the sweetly shallow creature from the deep, and Tom Hanks, as the produce merchant who loves her, start to get goopy, there is a New York City street person available to assert the reality principle: Eugene Levy, splendid as a mad scientist who seems to have wandered in from a Jaws sequel, or John Candy, fine as a man who thinks Penthouse centerfolds...
...classes," said President Seyed Ali Khamene'i, 44, last summer, "and let big landlords, big factory owners and the wealthy seethe in discontent." Opposing them are the ultrarightist clerics who insist that the Koran unequivocally condemns such socialistic practices. The Prophet Muhammad, they point out, was once a merchant, who said, "The merchant is among God's favorites." The leftists were rebuffed 16 months ago when the social reform bills they proposed were vetoed by the Guardian Council. But last summer they made up some ground by edging out of power the Ministers of Labor and Commerce...