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...practices for working men and women, but the business world is not a perfect place. It was built on competition, human communications, flexibility and risk. Men as well as women have had to endure hardships and personal challenges to succeed. Both men and women should exhibit tact and professionalism toward those with whom they work. And women in the workplace need to toughen their attitudes and demonstrate their ability to function in a variety of situations. KYLE CHERITON Tokyo...
...Lewis Grossberger's amusing commentary [ESSAY, March 23] on the mistaken announcement by astronomers that a "Giant Killer Asteroid" is streaking toward Earth: Wouldn't it be great if more people agreed with Grossberger that we earthlings have really not accomplished much and "the end of civilization as we know it isn't such a bad idea"? We could take his advice and issue press releases saying, "Hey, we gave it our best shot, but we really weren't up to this existence business. So, we're outta here." Deep inside, you know who you are. ALAN REID Abbeydale, England...
Thanks for a balanced article on Indonesia's economic crisis [WORLD, March 23]. Fifty years ago, we Indonesians won independence, 20 years later we kicked out the Communist Party, and for 30 years we have been marching steadily toward prosperity. Then came the crisis. If we want to survive, we will have to follow the International Monetary Fund's prescriptions. But the conditions set by the IMF are not entirely fair. If we adhere to them completely, our economy will be the most open one in the world, but it will be controlled by the big, financially powerful multinational corporations...
...helps if you invest in stocks and have 10 years before you'll need the money. If that's you, convert this year while the taxman is running a Roth special: you get to spread the tax liability over four years. But if you're near retirement and lean toward bonds or CDs, converting may be a bad idea. Analysis by accountants Grant Thornton shows that a couple in the 28% tax bracket ('98 income between $42,350 and $102,300) will need 22 years to come out ahead, assuming some state tax, a 15% federal-tax bracket in retirement...
Many other Rooseveltian acts loom larger in historical retrospect than they did at the time, when they passed unnoticed or unappreciated. For example, T.R. was the first President to perceive, through his own pince-nez, that this nation's future trade posture must be toward Asia and away from the Old World entanglements of its past. Crossing the Sierra Nevada on May 7, 1903, he boggled at the beauty and otherworldliness of California. New York--his birthplace--seemed impossibly far away, Europe antipodean. "I felt as if I was seeing Provence in the making...