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...further upward." After two days of talks, their cordiality escalated to outright chumminess. They emerged from a resort lodge in sweaters and open-necked shirts to stroll bantering through the fields and flowers of the Russian countryside. At the resort spa of Zheleznovodsk, they jubilantly announced that they had swept aside the last significant obstacles to uniting Germany by the end of the year. Yes, Gorbachev said, a unified Germany could join NATO if it liked. And yes, said Kohl, Germany would agree to ways to allay Moscow's fears about the future...
...life to many of East Germany's industrial behemoths will be a daunting task. Reviving small business should be easier because the area had a long tradition of smaller, specialized industrial companies before the command economy crushed them. It was only in 1972 that a final wave of nationalization swept the last 12,000 firms into state conglomerates. About half of them have already demanded to be reprivatized. Officials in Bonn and Berlin hope the spark of entrepreneurial talent can be rekindled with loans from European Recovery Program funds. Demand is high. An initial allocation of $3.5 billion has already...
...once again, I have become a born-again zealot, convinced by the same tireless argument that we won't know it when the Messiah does actually arrive. Yes, I have once again been swept up in the great Red Sox pennant chase. Back, yet another time, for more abuse...
...political revolution that swept through Eastern Europe last year was just the beginning. Now comes a rush of new business ventures that will open the region to the rest of the world and change the way East Europeans work, play and shop. In Hungary, General Electric paid $150 million last January for control of Tungsram, one of the world's largest light-bulb makers. GE plans to light up Europe by selling the bulbs across the Continent. In Poland, Italian automaker Fiat, in partnership with a Polish company, plans to build 1.5 million subcompacts during the next ten years...
...Giroux)) made recommendations that substantially improved both Presumed Innocent and The Burden of Proof. After the way I've been treated by my publisher, I'd be a schmuck to think about going somewhere else." That is a distinct departure in an age when publishing-world loyalties have been swept away by bidding wars and the lure of big advances...