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...guests have stayed there so far--and Leslie blossomed into a confident, effective businesswoman. But while she landscaped her property and planted her gardens, she began wishing that others would do the same. So she launched a successful campaign to have her neighborhood declared a national historic district, a six-month drive that introduced Leslie to her neighbors. Soon they were planting flowers and sprucing up their homes just as she had hoped. "That's what newcomers can do for a town," she says. "Make old-timers see the place with fresh eyes...
...fell to a six-month low this week, U.S. Treasury Secretary Robert E. Rubin wrote to his Japanese counterpart urging Japanese leaders to boost the country's stagnant economy. Rubin is especially concerned about the impact of a financial meltdown in South Korea, one of Japan's fiercest regional competitors. Japan may be tempted to let the yen fall in value if the same thing happens to the South Korean currency. That could cause the U.S. trade deficit to grow $60 billion to $110 billion by early 1999, experts...
Philbin said MTV paid "fair market rent" during the six-month period, though he declined to say how much that...
WASHINGTON: Politicians, themselves not the most popular figures in American public life, sometimes have difficulty finding less popular targets suitable for attack. There are drug dealers, Internet porn producers, and recently, the Internal Revenue Service. Now the Senate Finance Committee begins to unveil the findings of a six-month probe, and TIME correspondent Sam Gwynne says the IRS may deserve the public lashing it will receive. The committee will charge that the agency targets lower-and-middle-income people for audits and uses a quota system to rate agents. Some analysts are asking if the service's behavior...
...want to move up the corporate ladder." That's not a remarkable statement for a career-oriented person--until you consider the speaker. Michael Bradford, 38, battled drugs and alcoholism throughout his adult life and eight months ago was homeless on Washington's streets. His resume includes a six-month jail term for burglary. Born into a welfare family, Bradford fully expected...