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...embattled economically, competing with people like the Koreans and Mexicans, who are willing to work harder for less, and the Japanese, who study more diligently, save more and spend less. We shouldn't begrudge their efforts to prosper, we should applaud them. But to prosper ourselves, we need to be as efficient as possible -- personally (turn off the TV if no one's watching it!), corporately and governmentally...
...billion trade deficit, U.S. exports have been growing, in constant dollars, as a proportion of the gross national product. Says Robert Hormats, vice chairman of Goldman Sachs International: "A country that exports 15% of its GNP cannot turn its back on the world economy and hope to prosper." But Bush only grudgingly and recently has begun to consider measures to make the U.S. more competitive. His muzzy pronouncements about creating a new world order fail to address the need to redirect the energies formerly focused on the cold war to long-term economic revival...
Nine years ago, Harrison achieved his dream and moved into 535 Mountain Boulevard, a three-bedroom brick-and-stucco house. At that point the law firm he helped found was four years old and starting to prosper. Harrison and his wife Joy began thinking about raising a family. "I was absolutely thrilled to be here," he says...
...Hoffman said that Discount Records will continue to prosper because it provides a different selection, with unique jazz, vocal and international sections...
...keep policyholders and investment capital from fleeing, as well as to attract new customers, some insurers are looking at mergers as a means to survive and prosper. Connecticut-based Phoenix Mutual Life (with 400,000 policyholders) and New York-based Home Life (300,000) admitted last week that preliminary talks are under way for a possible merger of the two firms, the first between major mutual life insurance companies. In a mutual life insurance firm the policyholders are the owners. If the merger is completed, a process both companies admit may take more than a year to accomplish, it would...