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Tardy says the balancing act requires trade-offs...
Your story "Banana Wars," on trade agreements and restrictions [BUSINESS, Feb. 8], painted a one-sided picture of the dilemma. The dependency of Caribbean islands like St. Vincent and the Grenadines on bananas for hard currency far outweighs Chiquita's need to maintain market share in Europe. Perhaps if Chiquita's chairman, Carl Lindner, had not spent so much time and money lobbying Congress and the White House, his company would not have "lost money four of the past five years." It's been said that business is war, and wars cost money. Chiquita is at war with the eastern...
...focus of your report was very narrow, concentrating on the trade war that concerns only the 13% of worldwide banana production that is exported. The real banana war is the one that concerns the more than half a billion people in developing countries of the tropics, for whom different types of bananas are a staple food crop. In this war, people are battling the diseases and pests that are becoming more and more rampant. Average yields achieved by the small farmers who depend on this crop are one-tenth of those on the large multinational plantations. But the small farmers...
...which talk about a Hillary run--which had been at a low buzz since January--rose to a clamorous din and then to a round-the-clock media roar. Just when the Republic thought it could safely turn its attention toward more pressing matters (How could the Yankees trade David Wells? What will ER do without George Clooney?), the Clintons snagged the headlines and talk shows for themselves--but with some good news for a change. Daniel Patrick Moynihan anointed the First Lady heir to his Senate seat, gushing over her "magnificent, young, bright, able, Illinois-Arkansas enthusiasm." When Virginia...
...much attention to Windows CE when the first digital assistants using the software started shipping last spring. I should have. CE is perfect for lazy guys like me who are willing to trade off full functionality for a specialized, ultralight tool. But be warned that CE will run only its own applications, and they're "lite" versions. Microsoft is so worried that consumers will be confused--and buy a CE machine expecting it to run full Windows programs--that it will launch an "awareness" ad campaign next month. Pocket Word, for instance, is a dumbed-down Word that's little...