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...will be necessary and increased national saving essential. Furthermore, we would like to see retirement security addressed as part of a general policy to reduce poverty and improve income security for all Americans, rather than as an isolated program. In this election, however, the more pressing needs are to resist self-delusion and to avoid speculating on Social Security...
With 30,000 outlets around the world, Tricon dwarfs Heinecke's Minor Group. Heinecke has never been afraid, however, to rumble with heavyweights. In 1998 he rallied Thai shareholders in the Regent Bangkok hotel to resist a takeover attempt by U.S. investment bank Goldman Sachs. Goldman was only able to increase its stake from 34% to 40%, while the remainder stayed with Heinecke and his Thai allies. He believes he will eventually gain majority control...
...Atlanta in 1996. But the Village was designed to house only 10,200 athletes, so officials had to scramble to add beds, doubling and tripling up people in rooms. But free travel is not the only reason for the growth of the Games. The International Olympic Committee can't resist adding new events to the already packed schedule. In Atlanta there were 273 medal events on the books, but in Sydney the number has grown to 300 (including such events as trampoline and modern pentathlon). The better part of that growth, though, reflects a commendable effort at involving more women...
...Riley hires George Kelling, a research fellow at the Kennedy School, to study the force. He issues a 55-page report on the status of the department. The verdict: things are good, but many in the department resist the move to community policing, which the report says is necessary for the force's improvement...
...cost of operating the aircraft, already among the most expensive aircraft to operate in history. The Boeing 747, by contrast, carries four times as many people as the Concorde but costs half as much to maintain. The fixes to the supersonic plane could include tires that resist rupture and explosion, reinforcing the protection of fuel tanks and perhaps coating the underside of the wings with tough materials like kevlar. Even minor changes would be uneconomical. Says R.E.G. Davies, curator of air transport at the National Air and Space Museum, who has written a book on the Concorde: "If it needs...