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...Committee chairman Rich Bond, who seemed to be everywhere last summer peddling his line "Those other people are not America" to anyone who stuck a microphone in his face, is also missing in action. With disaster looming, Bond has become fair game: last week former Delaware Governor Pete du Pont broke with tradition and openly began to lobby...
...absence of definitive answers, the Dutch were left with the unforgettable horror. As a cold wind whipped through the weeping willows that surround the apartment complex, Wynanda Pont, a native of Suriname, gazed at the gutted, burned hulk of a building where scorched laundry still hung from clotheslines and window boxes held a few lone geraniums. The 37-year-old teacher had been crocheting by her window across the street when she heard a crash and saw a wall of red flame. "I rushed outside," she recalled. "I can still hear the screaming. I saw a woman throw two children...
...breathtaking rate of 20% a year during the bullish 1980s, has slowed down. Since the stock- market minicrash in October 1989, demand for computerized business data has grown a tame 5%. A subsequent shakeout has already claimed some weaker firms, such as Bunker Ramo, GTE Financial and Pont Systems, through mergers and failures. To remain viable, survivors must invest heavily in the next generation of information technology. That could spell trouble for small outfits like Bloomberg, says Margaret Fischer, head of electronic-information , practices at the market-research firm Link Resources. "The survivors will be those with deep pockets, critical...
...environmentally friendly products is worth an estimated $200 billion a year, and has just begun to take off. Every potential innovation, whether a new kind of windmill or biodegradable plastic made from plants, is attracting attention from companies in a host of industrial nations. The U.S.'s Du Pont is in a race with Germany's Hoechst and Britain's ICI, among others, to develop replacement chemicals for ozone-destroying chlorofluorocarbons (cfcs). Germany's Siemens is vying with such firms as Amoco in the U.S. and Sanyo in Japan to produce cheap, efficient solar electric cells...
Ridding the planet of the millions of tons of ozone-depleting chemicals contained in that vision is not just a big job; it may be the biggest job the nations of the world have ever taken on. In the 60 years since Du Pont began marketing the miracle refrigerant it called Freon, chlorofluorocarbons have worked their way deep into the machinery of what much of the world thinks of as modern life -- air-conditioned homes and offices, climate-controlled shopping malls, refrigerated grocery stores, squeaky-clean computer chips. Extricating the planet from the chemical burden of that high-tech life...