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...deal with the Yugoslav crisis has exposed its impotence in foreign policy. Its prosperity is undermined by global recession. Turmoil in the money markets has reinforced doubts about the E.C.'s ability to achieve a single currency and greater political union. In a climate of growing unemployment, a spate of factory closings is leading to bitter rivalry: France is seeking to stop Hoover Europe from moving 600 manufacturing jobs from Dijon to Glasgow. Glasgow is protesting Nestle's subsidiary Rowntree's plans to shut a chocolate factory, transferring operations outside Scotland. "European unity might be good for business," says customs...
...announcement of Rupp's appointment, which came Monday at a press conference with Rupp and search committee members, had to be separated from a spate of false rumors and hoaxes regarding the search process...
There's only one thing worse than business books: business novels. A new spate -- with titles like The Quadrant Solution and Flying Fox -- dispense the usual wooden phrasing and boring platitudes with, occasionally, a clunky hint of sex. Quadrant offers a numbing exchange about business expansion, interrupted by a long kiss. From the steamy dialogue in Fox: "Relax," she said. "Have another glass of water." Puh-leeze...
...shifted his positions on various domestic policies are true. He did use his middle-class tax cut proposal to capture votes successfully in last year's Democratic primaries. And despite his denial ("I don't know who led you to believe that"), Clinton promised in June to have a spate of economic reform bills "ready the day after I'm inaugurated...
...Virginia Spate (Rizzoli; $65). Paul Cezanne put down his fellow painter: "Monet is only an eye." Perhaps, but with that organ the great Impressionist analyzed the effects of sunlight on cathedrals and haystacks and water lilies -- and altered our perceptions forever. A scholarly appreciation reveals...