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...Culinary Institute of America to oversee its new prepared-food operation. With such talent, D'Agostino hopes to whet the appetites -- and curiosity -- of New Yorkers accustomed to such entrenched take-out sources as Balducci's, Grace's Marketplace and upscale supermarkets. Raley's in Northern California, out to trim fat profits from local Chinese restaurants, placed five chefs at a hot-wok counter to stir-fry such wonders as Peking ribs and kung pao chicken...
...will be appearing in Manhattan federal court this week to respond to a lawsuit by National Geographic's quarterly Traveler charging that the overall appearance of Evans' magazine is strikingly similar to National Geographic's publication. At Trips, Ziegler denies that hard times in the parent clothing chain will trim the magazine's sails. And industry analysts still wonder if the market can soak up so many go-go competitors -- particularly since travel- related companies put only one-fifth of their ad budgets into travel magazines...
Another proposal objectionable to the White House calls for the Government to keep more detailed records of foreign investment in the U.S. The Administration fears that foreign investors, who have helped prop up the economy through heavy buying of Treasury bills and other securities, might trim such purchases if they knew their names could be made public. Nobuhiko Sasaki, a deputy director at Japan's Ministry of International Trade and Industry, warns that congressional passage of the proposal would be "like putting a knife to your own neck...
Congress shapes a bill to help trim the trade deficit. -- The Postal Service cuts service but hikes prices. -- Kuwait' s BP connection...
...aides displayed a high order of organizational skill and a talent for damage limitation in the face of adversity. Whether seared by Iran-contra or jarred by defeats in Iowa, Minnesota and South Dakota, Bush maintained his strategy. He never let the Reagan mantle slip from his trim frame, never strayed far from the base camp of Reagan policy and Reagan philosophy. When he did utter some minor heresy, it was a denial rather than an assertion. "I want to add here," he said almost parenthetically in one major speech, "that I do not hate government. I'm proud...