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...Albania established normal diplomatic relations by exchanging ambassadors. As the price of reconciliation, Athens apparently dropped its 100-year-old claim to North Epirus, a large chunk of southern Albania populated by many Greeks. The two countries, which since 1940 had icily ignored one another and kept their mutual border tightly closed, are now expected to undertake joint ventures in promoting trade and tourism...
...Mutual Fears. The Greek-Albanian example is part of a growing trend toward regional cooperation. The area is divided into five political camps: pro-Western, nonaligned, Maoist, and two variations of Moscow-oriented Communism. But leaders of the Balkans, motivated mainly by pragmatic economics and a desire to keep big powers from exploiting the region's problems for their own purposes, are making efforts to end old disputes. Yugoslavia, for example, has ended its old quarrel with Albania and is granting greater autonomy to the Albanian minority within its borders...
VANTAGE 10/90 FUND, the oldest and largest of the conscience funds, has grown from $135,000 in assets to $2,500,000 in three years. Its net asset value per share has increased 9% since 1969, while that of the mutual-fund industry as a whole has dropped 10%. Vantage allows its shareholders to specify how 10% to 15% of their capital is to be divided among companies active in three categories of social concern-the environment, the cities and hunger. The rest of the fund's assets are invested by its managers according to largely financial considerations...
SOCIAL DIMENSIONS FUND, founded by Ralph Quinter, 32-year-old president of the old-line Pennsylvania Mutual Fund, has not yet been approved by the SEC. Quinter has arranged for the Council on Economic Priorities, a New York-based public-interest research group, to provide information about which companies and industries behave best with regard to such "social criteria" as environmental protection, employee job training and product safety...
Even with this basic understanding, bosses and workers have experienced some mutual culture shokku. Language difficulties have bothered both sides. Some Texan employees point to office signs exhorting them GOOD COMMUNICATIONS-SAY IT-DO IT-QUICK ACTION and suggest that they be retranslated into Japanese. A Japanese executive was bewildered one morning when an American salesman greeted him by drawling, "How're ya doin'?" Replied the boss: "I not yet doing. I just get here...