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...Poles. The country's underlying problem is that it invested in all the wrong industries. The state has squandered foreign loans and subsidized shipyards, steel mills and coal mines. In an age when information and high technology are the driving force of economic growth, Poland is saddled with a string-and-can phone system and a work force that spends much of its time moonlighting as middlemen for goods and services that no one is producing...
BUSINESS: A string of oil spills triggers a cleanup campaign...
Last week the Coast Guard, National Guardsmen and private contractors made unusually good progress in cleaning up the uncanny string of spills. In Narragansett Bay, where the Greek tanker World Prodigy struck a reef and spewed 420,000 gals. of No. 2 fuel oil, most of the residue had evaporated or was rounded up by week's end. While the fuel may have long-term toxic effects on some marine life, fishermen were able to harvest shellfish for the first time since the accident. After an initial investigation, the ship's captain, Iakovos Georgudis, was charged with one misdemeanor count...
Cain's rise began in 1987 when his company added to its string of petrochemical plants, buying at bargain prices. Sterling and its partners gambled $1 billion on these plants, which were assembled into a single firm known as Cain Chemical. Last year Sterling sold the package to Occidental Petroleum in a deal that was valued at $2.2 billion. Cain shared his bounty ! with some 1,350 employees, who took home a total of $537 million...
...stately, choreographed movements, placed the lights and objects to cast different shadow forms on four screens set up behind their chairs. The program typically offered two New York premieres. In John Geist's edgy Fall from Grace, Kronos played live against the background of a tape of 18 string quartets prerecorded by the group. In Steven Mackey's Among the Vanishing, a setting of texts by poet Rainer Maria Rilke, the performers were joined by soprano Dawn Upshaw...