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...Last year Iran launched a five-year campaign to attract $27 billion in foreign investment. So far, France, Italy, Germany and Austria, among others, have extended Iran more than $12 billion in credits. The U.S., however, continues to hold $11 billion in frozen Iranian assets and to impose a partial ban on the purchase of Iranian crude oil for sale...
This wanderlust brought him to Rensselaer, although the choice between the Engineers and the Irish was mostly a financial decision. Rensselaer offered a full, four-year grant-in-aid scholarship, while Notre Dame proferred a partial scholarship...
Long familiar to French chefs, baby vegetables are a growing business across the Atlantic. Upscale restaurants are increasingly partial to downsize squash, zucchini, carrots, lettuce and green beans. The stateside craze means Guatemalan gold. A year-round growing season, rich volcanic soil and high- altitude geography give the impoverished nation a significant edge in the U.S. winter-vegetable market, as indicated by last week's crowning achievement: a party for Britain's Queen Elizabeth in Houston, where Guatemalan baby squash and pineapples the size of softballs were on the menu. Yet back in Central America, no one would dream...
...Christina Locek, 42, of River Grove, Ill., a onetime professional ice skater and pianist who says her health was destroyed in 1985 when a lawn-care service sprayed her neighbor's yard. Her cat and dog died the same day, she says, and she continues to suffer partial paralysis, substantial vision loss, headaches and blood disorders. Another woman told the Senate subcommittee that she sometimes slept in her car to avoid lawn spraying in her neighborhood...
...Decade of the Deal, sold his 13.3% interest in Pittsburgh-based USX. Icahn became a force in the company in 1986, when takeover fever was at its height. He waged an unsuccessful 1990 proxy war to force the firm out of the steel business, but seemed to achieve partial victory in January when the company agreed to split its common stock into separate steel and energy issues -- an agreement that went into effect barely a week before Icahn's abrupt withdrawal from USX. The take from Icahn's sale was more than $1 billion -- impressive on paper, yet a measly...