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...Chinese dissidents abroad urged sympathizers on the mainland to honor the April 15 anniversary of the beginning of last year's prodemocracy upheaval by simply taking a stroll through Beijing's Tiananmen Square. But the country's security watchdogs were eavesdropping. Last week, at the suggested start of the modest commemoration, police seized the 100-acre square in the heart of the capital. As soldiers guarded the perimeter, thousands of schoolchildren performed a ceremony to honor the nation's revolutionary-war dead. When the security forces melted away and Tiananmen was reopened to the public, scores of plainclothes agents kept...
Some fashion houses have thrived since their namesakes' deaths; others have struggled along. Chanel and Dior have prospered long after their originators passed on. The Perry Ellis lines continue, though on a more modest level, since the designer's death in 1986. His menswear and casual sportswear have done well, but the women's fashion business, a portion of the heart of any major couture house, has faltered. Williwear, Willi Smith's sports-clothes line, is doing a booming business. Says the designer's flamboyant sister Toukie: "There are hundreds of other talented young people out there, and the spirit...
...more than 1 million investors, Peter Lynch was a magician, a modern alchemist who transmuted their modest savings into solid wealth. Since Lynch began running the then tiny Fidelity Magellan fund in 1977, its shares have surged 25-fold in value -- far more than the fourfold gain for the Dow Jones industrial average during the same period or the increase for any other mutual fund. Lynch, 46, built Boston-based Magellan from a $22 million operation into a $13.3 billion monster, the world's biggest and most celebrated fund. And he did it the old-fashioned way, through 13-hour...
...With an unemployment rate of 10 percent, it ranks 27th out of 55 West Virginia counties, and 24th in earnings per job. Fayette County is neither affluent nor dirt poor. If you peer into the "hollers," you can find wretched poverty. But most of the area is dotted by modest, clean houses and neat yards...
Besides seeking to buttress the yen, the Bank of Japan was trying to prevent an outbreak of inflation. Consumer prices are rising at a relatively modest 3% annual rate, but the official index fails to provide an accurate measure of many worrisome signs. Residential land prices in the booming city of Osaka rose 56% last year. So far in 1990, hotel rates have risen 9%, and the price of a bottle of Kirin beer is up 6.7%. Petroleum prices also rose last year, no small matter for a country that imports nearly...