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...stock market threw a record-setting party last week, but many investors failed to attend. Spurred in part by a Government report that the Consumer Price Index had risen a modest 0.2% in April, the Dow Jones industrial average reached new all-time highs on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday. After a drop of 12 points on Friday, the Dow closed at 2819.91, up 18 for the week. But the gaiety was muted by the fact that broader market gauges, including Standard & Poor's index of 500 stocks, remained flat throughout the week and have shown little growth all year...
Montparnasse was quite dead after World War II, but it enjoyed a modest revival in the '70s and '80s, when restaurantification became the new fad (and source of higher profits). Old-timers still mourn the fate of the Coupole, a barnlike old brasserie that had served as home to Henry Miller, Lawrence Durrell, Samuel Beckett; it was acquired by a restaurant chain, torn down and rebuilt in 1988 into a sort of yuppie grazing center. More felicitous was the 1986 transformation of the Cafe du Dome, a plain, bare sort of place, where an impoverished writer used to be able...
Legal fees are probably Milken's biggest regular expense right now. For a tycoon, he lives a relatively modest life with his wife Lori and three children in a five-bedroom house in the Los Angeles suburb of Encino. When Milken was the most powerful financier in America, a bodyguard drove him to his office by 4:30 a.m. in a limousine. But those days are behind him. Under terms of the settlement, the Government has permanently barred Milken from the securities business. Yet if Milken ever does run a little low, he could always call on his brother Lowell...
Stubbornness with the peace process, abuse of Palestinians and religious intolerance have led to a rising chorus of dissent and a tougher line from Washington. -- A modest proposal to reform Congress: send them home...
...martial metaphors and atmosphere of antagonism are perhaps inevitable in any situation in which interest is set against interest. But they are not appropriate to the present state of transatlantic trade, which is one of near equilibrium moving toward a modest U.S. export surplus. As recently as 1987, in the aftermath of the overvalued dollar, the U.S. ran a large deficit in trade with the Community, but once the dollar came back to earth, that deficit dwindled, just as the experts said it would. Today the E.C. is no longer a factor contributing to the U.S. trade deficit...