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...cheerfully reviewed as the "most successful of the six I have attended," Treasury Secretary James Baker helped to win endorsement of an ambitious plan to control the volatile relationship between the U.S. dollar and other currencies through tighter coordination of economic policies (see box). The agreement was easy to reach, but the goal proved difficult to accomplish: despite a spate of follow-up meetings among economic leaders, market forces sent the dollar on a roller-coaster plunge in relation to the Japanese yen and the West German mark...
Both the AWACS spotters and those on the Stark had missed the most ominous sign of all: just before its twisting turns, the Mirage had released one of its Exocet missiles. Within seconds it launched another. Traveling at more ) than 500 m.p.h., the initial warhead would reach the Stark in one minute...
...Florida Governor Bob Martinez thought he had discovered that politician's dream, a painless tax increase. Last April 23 he signed a law that extended the reach of the state's 5% sales tax to cover everything from legal services to pest control to credit collection. The new levies were intended to raise about $700 million a year, including some $100 million from a tax on advertisers, both in state and out. But while the Governor's constituents have greeted the measures with passive acceptance, Martinez has run into a wave of prickly Madison Avenue opposition that has turned...
...study found that typical celebrity advertisements of the kind the city has in the past sponsored do not reach the youth they target...
Boston, trying to reach the final round for the fourth straight year, can do so by winning Game 6 tomorrow night in Pontiac, Mich. The winner of the series will face the Los Angeles Lakers, who swept Seattle to win the Western Conference...