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...joke is on the people who are crying, the refugees, the bombed-out villagers, the farmers whose land now resembles the surface of the moon . . . . ) Our good radical mental picture of the long-suffering Asian leaves out the Laotian who is getting a good laugh and a fat pocketbook out of the American colonial ego trip...
...elsewhere because the government, and especially tough Socialist Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew, cracks down on polluters with a vengeance. Strict laws are well understood in a compact city-state where the citizenry has a high literacy rate. But it is the sting of law-hitting Singaporeans in the pocketbook-that has been the most effective antipollution measure...
Just her name was enough to define a pair of shoes, a hat, a pocketbook, a suit, perfume, jewelry-an entire look. It conveyed prestige, quality, impeccable taste and unmistakable style. It was a sign of excellence. Coco Chanel had no patience, and too much talent, for anything less. By her death last week at 87, the French couturière had long since established herself as the 20th century's single most important arbiter of fashion...
...steady withdrawal of U.S. troops from Southeast Asia has been a source of rising cheer at home. In many non-Communist Asian countries few such cheers can be heard. The satisfaction of seeing Yankee go home is tempered by a pain in the pocketbook...
Just the Facts. "We are not going after these companies as crusaders," says Alice Tepper, 26, a pretty Wellesley graduate who is founder and director of the Council. "If they are polluters, the facts themselves will hit them in the pocketbook. Many Americans seem to prefer cleaner air to an extra dollar of dividend income." Alice Tepper does not pretend to be a pollution expert; she does know how to organize experts who can examine corporate performance. She first got interested in such problems two years ago while working as a securities analyst in a Boston investment firm. A local...