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Sessions of the Supreme Soviet rarely attract much notice outside the Soviet Union, where the legislative body is dismissed as a rubber-stamp parliament. However, last week's gathering in the vaulted, neoclassical chamber of the Great Kremlin Palace was different. As the 1,500 Deputies filed in to take their seats, diplomats and journalists who crammed the visitors' gallery animatedly discussed only one topic: Would there be a selection of the next President of the Soviet Union? Since Leonid Brezhnev's death on Nov. 10, the ceremonial and highly visible post has been vacant. Kremlin watchers...
...steel, and they have also cashed in on designer clothing and personal computers. Ironically, noted Chen, "the states that have been most successful are those that are very poor in resources, like Singapore, Taiwan and Hong Kong. They have not been tied down like Malaysia to tin and rubber...
...high 8.3% in Texas. White also exploited popular antipathy toward Texas power companies, suggesting that as Governor he would make the state's utility regulatory agency "a watchdog, not a lapdog." Said Don Ring, Clements' media consultant: "Texas politics snapped back to party lines just like a rubber band around a batch of Social Security checks...
Many chief executives of major corporations agreed with that view. "The President is going to have to make more trade-offs," says David Mahoney, chairman of Norton Simon. "Both parties need to ignore extremes and concentrate on getting the economy rolling again." Asserted John Nevin, chairman of Firestone Tire & Rubber: "There will be a more pragmatic attitude toward intolerable budget deficits...
...were actually led by seed companies and, curiously enough, sporting-goods retailers. Their prosperous successors in the fitness era are such companies as Seattle's Eddie Bauer and Orvis, in Manchester, Vt. The most famous of all came along in 1912 when Leon Leonwood Bean started selling his rubber-bottomed hunting shoes from a Main Street address in Freeport...