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...barring military exports and U.S. bank loans. These restrictions will not gravely damage India's economy, but the U.S. is also bound to oppose loans from the IMF and the World Bank, which could affect $14.5 billion worth of projects. Vajpayee shrugged it all off as the price of success. "India will not be cowed by threats and punitive steps," he said...
...proposed megabank mergers may be getting all the press, but there is also banking news in the startling success of microbanks around the world. More than 7,000 microcredit institutions offer tiny loans (averaging about $100) to destitute people to generate income through self-employment. The results are higher incomes, better health and better school attendance. Microbanking now functions on a large scale. For example, the Grameen Bank of Bangladesh has more than 2 million borrowers, most of them village women, in one of the world's poorest countries. Yet the on-time repayment rate is 98%. In the microbanks...
DIED. KAROLJ SELES, 64, Yugoslav cartoonist who nurtured and safeguarded the phenomenal tennis talents of his daughter Monica from her early success through the 1993 stabbing that debilitated her to her dramatic 1995 comeback; of stomach cancer; in Sarasota...
...Sinatra's influence be seen? Yes, mostly in the swagger. Luther Vandross, 47, the R.-and-B. singer who teamed with Sinatra on his 1993 album Duets, says he was drawn early on to Sinatra's blunt Hoboken, N.J., charisma. "When I was growing up," says Vandross, "he represented success and respect." Another pop star who has learned from Sinatra is Bono, 38, lead singer of the Irish rock group U2. Presenting Sinatra with a special "Legend" Award at the Grammys in 1994, Bono pinpointed Frank's appeal for a new generation: "Rock-'n'-roll people love Frank Sinatra because...
Once considered experimental, transplant surgery is increasingly viewed as mainstream medicine. Most insurance companies now cover kidney, heart and liver transplants, but while the surgery itself is becoming routine, prospects for long-term success are not always as high...