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Consumer groups are now taking up the slack. The Massachusetts Women's Council on Obstetrical Practices attempts to sway parents with a novel approach. It shows pictures of a circumcision in progress while playing a record of the baby's screams...
...companies, measures the health of its business by the daily mail. Between 1973 and 1978, it received about 250 financing proposals each year. This year it expects to receive 400. The quality of applications is improving too. Says Sutter Hill Partner G. Leonard Baker Jr.: "During the slack times, we were seeing people with very few alternatives for finding new money. Now we're seeing an explosion of entrepreneurs...
...they move up in line they permit themselves to wonder: Is there a letter for me today? The efficient, sympathetic mademoiselle behind the counter nods yes, and watches aging eyes light up-or says, "Hélas, non, madame," and averts her glance from a spinsterly face gone slack. When you send a letter to your love -even if he is a "Dear Stranger" who caresses you through the mail-an "Hélas, non, madame "can break your heart...
...diamonds, and is by a wide margin the most influential member of the London-based Central Selling Organization, an international price-fixing cartel of diamond producers. In spite of the cartel's efforts to stabilize the market, diamond prices have fallen because of excessive speculation combined with a slack in demand...
...getting the full amount. I think it's a breach of promise on the part of the government to promise these funds, and then to arbitrarily pull back at the last minute. There's no way the private sector will be able to make up the slack," Fichlandar says...