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...orders were reported in January, according to the monthly survey of 250 industrial companies by the National Association of Purchasing Management. There was also good news from the National Federation of Independent Business: it said that the hiring plans of small firms are at a three-year peak. As Charles Lee, an economist at Chicago's Northern Trust bank, cautiously notes: "The beginning signs of a turnaround are quite favorable...
...regain what he claimed was lost territory, Saddam Hussein now wants out of the war on almost any terms that could be described as honorable. Iran so far has rejected all offers. Even before the present worldwide oil glut, Iraq's petroleum production was down from a peak of about 4 million bbl. per day to about 1 million bbl. per day. Iraqi oil facilities in the south are in ruins, and the country's economy is being sustained by a monthly subsidy of $1 billion provided by Saudi Arabia and the smaller gulf states...
...delightful little Hotel Montejo in Mérida, Ted Mills and Jill Heizman of Santa Cruz, Calif., paid only $5.50 a night, about the average price they encountered during a month-long tour of Yucatan. Such bargains are all the more remarkable considering that this is the peak of the Mexican tourist season...
...lifts feeding Ruthie's Run, Aspen's best-known trail. In the past year the landmark Red Onion saloon has closed, along with several other restaurants. Five lodges, including the 170-unit Continental Inn, are in the midst of foreclosure. Retail sales growth has slumped from the peak years of the 1970s, when profits grew at an annual rate of more than 15%. Owners of chic boutiques and eateries gripe that business is significantly down from last season. The "Silver Queen," as residents fondly refer to their town, even looks a bit bedraggled. Compared with accommodations in Vail...
...possible that the quarry, the more than 100 million people who ordinarily hover in front of the screen during prime time in this peak viewing month, will swim way from this costly bait? "hat they may be lured instead by Dallas or Magnum, P.I. on CBS, or Hill Street Blues on NBC? That they may (dire thought) turn to cable or flip on a video game? Or just decide to read Jane Austen? Of course it is. The bottom of the rating charts is Uttered with such failed mini-series as King, The French Atlantic Affair, MacArthur and Beggarman Thief...