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Lessing, best known for The Golden Notebook and the semi-autobiographical series The Children of Violence, was born in Persia of British parents. Her mother was a nurse, her father a World War I amputee who gained more his wife's pity than her love. Doris was called Tigger after...
While none of the panelists foresaw a new outbreak of inflation anytime soon, they differed as to how great the risk might be. Sinai cautioned that the economy has entered a hazardous "zone of full employment" in which companies are producing all that they can and any strong increase in...
-- Caterpillar took a more conventional, and controversial, lean-and-mean approach. In the early 1980s, says Glen Barton, group president for construction and mining machinery, Caterpillar's "costs were out of line with what overseas markets were willing to pay for our products"; the company lost $1.5 billion cutting prices...
MINING REFORM: Congress on Thursday abandoned attempts to reconcile bills passed by the House and Senate to reform the 1872 Mining Act, which has allowed mining companies to take title to land for as little as $2.50 an acre and mine billions of dollars' worth of gold, silver and other...
Reports of ethical violations have also been clouding some of GE's traditional lines of business. In October the Connecticut-based company faces trial in federal court in Columbus, Ohio, on charges that it conspired with a unit of South Africa's De Beers mining company to fix the price...