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...several sections of the country. The mighty Japanese, now far and away the world's biggest banking players, are also being squeezed. Japanese banks face rising interest rates that boost their costs at home and new international capital-reserve requirements that curb their lending abroad. In Europe, considered the premier expansion market in the 1990s, the European Community's July 1 deregulation of financial flows across most members' borders is expected to accelerate the merger movement in the Continent's highly protected banking industry. West German banks are also preoccupied with the beckoning market of East Germany...
...limited to the national territory," says Societe Generale chairman Marc Vienot. Abroad, "we plan to find niches." One example: Societe Generale's recent purchase of the investment-management firm Touche Remnat of Britain, which will give the French bank a toehold in London, the Continent's premier financial center...
Nearly 30 years ago, IBM revolutionized the office workplace when it introduced the Selectric electric typewriter. The premier symbol of the high- tech office of the future, the Selectric used plug-in cartridges, instead of messy ink ribbons, and replaced the sliding carriage and keys with a rotating typing golf ball. Since 1961, IBM has sold some 13 million Selectrics, making it the best-selling machine in the company's 76-year history...
DOUG WILDER Virginia's Governor is clearly enjoying trips to Iowa and New Hampshire. With his "New Mainstream" rhetoric, he's positioned to displace Jackson as the premier black politician...
Derek C. Bok has written a book that is an insightful and tough assessment of the performance of American higher education. But as the author enters his last of twenty years as president of one of the nation's premier research universitites, it is a perhaps unintended, but inevitable, consequence that his book will be used as a yardstick to assess the performance of Bok himself and of the Harvard he has shaped...