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...store, Bergdorf courted former financial pitchmen in a help-wanted ad in the Wall Street Journal: "From brokering to banking, if you've a proven track record in sales, the new Bergdorf Goodman Men's Store offers a career opportunity that is at once exciting and rewarding." Bergdorf says it swiftly received more than 100 applications for the jobs, which can reward persuasive salesmen with commissions that exceed $100,000 a year. Such incomes should help keep the former Masters of the Universe snappily attired in everything from tasseled loafers to silk cravats. As an added perk, Bergdorf is offering...
...trading partners. The U.S. trade deficit with India last year was only $851 million, or 2% of the imbalance between the U.S. and Japan. But Japan and Brazil, the two other countries cited last year along with India on the same hit list, were removed this year as a reward for entering into talks with the U.S. to lower some trade barriers. India, however, has refused to negotiate on the grounds that it should not be "intimidated or policed," declared Commerce Minister Arun Nehru...
...that a black youth had fractured the skull of one Vietnamese with a hammer, but in a fight that started after a 13- year-old girl tossed a bottle through an apartment window. Immediately after the fracas, police hung a sign on the Vietnamese victim's apartment building: REWARD. THIS IS A BIAS ASSAULT CRIME SCENE. Wrote Daily News columnist Mike McAlary: "In this moment you can hang the sign on the entire city...
...course, interest payments aren't handouts; they're the reward for lending money. Lenders to the Government could just as easily lend elsewhere. But most economists agree that the U.S. Government's huge demands for credit have raised interest rates generally. More and more of those interest payments go to foreigners, now that the U.S. is a net debtor to the rest of the world. But most interest payments are still to Americans. The national debt is around $10,000 a person, or $40,000 for a family of four. If your bond portfolio is bigger than that...
...vivid is their perpetual tension between lyricism and a stormy, still close past that keeps bearing down hard. "To write harshly," she says, "that's my ambition." And to relive everything, rework it and maybe, finally, to resolve it. That's her likely destiny. And the listener's reward...