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...billion last year, and the U.S. has become China's third-anking partner in commerce (after Japan and Hong Kong). Some 80 American companies have established offices in Peking, and the Bank of China has started a branch in New York City. Last month China opened 58,000 sq. mi. of potentially rich offshore oil grounds to competitive bidding by 46 oil companies, half of them American...
...senior staff over the course of a year, the most memorable was his description of the British Foreign Secretary. He called Lord Carrington a "duplicitous bastard." The Post was so proud of its sneak look at what it called the "unvarnished Haig" that it devoted about 300 sq. in. of one day's paper to Haig's "private and apparently candid pronouncements." It proved a damp squib...
Enders' rhetorical questions pinpointed the reasons the Administration has taken such a firm position on El Salvador. That strife-torn country of 4.9 million people, roughly the size of Massachusetts, has the highest population density (593 per sq. mi.) and one of the lowest per capita incomes ($670 a year) in all of Latin America, and Washington is committed to support the Duarte government at a time when its survival is by no means cer tain. But the Administration fears that any slackening of U.S. support might lead to a major opportunity in Central America for Soviet-sponsored Cuba...
...most explosive area for growth companies today is south of San Francisco Bay in a 250-sq.-mi. area in Santa Clara County, where orchards of apricots, prunes and cherries were once a main source of income. Tiny semiconductors made with chips of silicon that were first manufactured there at the end of the '60s gave the region its nickname-"Silicon Valley." Growing up alongside the semiconductor companies in such towns as Sunnyvale, Los Altos and Cupertino are a host of new, high-tech industries. Says Michael Shields, a catalogue marketer in Palo Alto: "Living here is like riding...
...American Billionaire Daniel K. Ludwig paid $3 million to a group of Brazilian families for approximately 6,000 sq. mi. of dense rain forest in the country's remote Amazon region. He then set in motion a bold plan for developing the area to help meet anticipated world shortages of food, lumber and wood pulp for papermaking...