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...dollar, which had spent much of the past two years in a free fall, seemed to be holding its own. After hearings that Wisconsin Democrat William Proxmire described as a "love feast," the 20 members of the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee voted unanimously to recommend Greenspan's confirmation. The full Senate is expected to approve the nomination before Volcker completes his term this week. Even Proxmire, who voiced philosophical differences with Greenspan, concluded, "I think you are a remarkable...
...with a sense of utter outrage that I read about the recommendations of some ecologists that the hunting of leopards and an international trade in leopard skins be resumed ((ENVIRONMENT, July 20)). The only large animal that is not on an endangered list, to judge by its numbers, is the human being. However, I would not on that account recommend that it be hunted...
...company has prospered by catering to the conservative inclinations of its small-town clientele. "Other firms were advising people to buy and sell," says Ted Jones. "Our advice was to buy and keep." Currently, Jones brokers tend to recommend such blue-chip stocks as McDonald's and BellSouth. By putting down roots in small communities, Jones brokers can get to know their customers especially well. Says Bill Janssen, the Jones man in St. Peter, Minn.: "I can work with a customer Friday, fish with him on Saturday and sit next to him in church on Sunday." Last year the average...
...Meulenaer. The pair used eyewitness accounts and statistical computer modeling to estimate Africa's leopard population at a healthy 700,000 to 850,000. The 75- to 150-lb. cats have even been sighted recently on the outskirts of Nairobi. The biologists went so far as to recommend the resumption of international trade in leopard skins. The best approach to leopard management, they argue, is to legalize a limited "harvest," diverting revenues from poachers and providing an estimated $29 million to "governments and law-abiding citizens...
...case. Says Robert Lamb, head of the State Department's bureau of diplomatic security: "We've got a lot of work before we can give even an interim judgment." A classified report completed this month by a presidential commission led by former Defense Secretary Melvin Laird is said to recommend the creation of a new elite guard corps...