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Apparently no other word means as much as American, and restaurant own-trying to grab it. In New York City alone there are, in addition to America, the American Festival Cafe in Rockefeller Plaza, An American Place on the Upper East Side, Cafe Americano and the American Harvest, operated by Hilton International, which also manages American Harvest in Washington and new one in Kansas City. There, however, they have chosen the simple word Harvest in order to avoid confusion with the established American Restaurant in the local Crown Center development. The American Grill prospers in Scottsdale, Ariz., and there...
BUSINESS: Women are moving up fast and heading for the top jobs in U.S. firms 64 From banking to manufacturing, executive suites are opening up to women. While relatively few of them have yet reached the upper levels of America's largest corporations, thousands are advancing through the ranks of middle management. Says one executive recruiter: "More and more companies realize that a good manager is a good manager regardless...
...dense murk that envelops London but settles thickest around the High Court of Chancery. Out of it swirls a teeming cloud of characters and incidents: a lawsuit that has been droning on for years, now grown "so complicated that no man alive knows what it means." An upper-class lady hiding a dark secret. Orphaned children, greedy adults, blackmailing lawyers, a detective story, a reunion and several untimely deaths (one of them by spontaneous combustion). The sheer scope of Charles Dickens' great novel Bleak House presents a daunting task for any adapter. But the BBC version that begins next week...
Under the House committee bill, the average American would get a tax cut of about 9%, with smaller breaks going to upper-income individuals. Like the earlier two proposals, the new plan would reduce the number of tax brackets for individuals from the current 15, which range from 11% to 50%. But while Reagan's proposal had three brackets, 15%, 25% and 35%, the Ways and Means bill has a fourth, 38%, which would be for individuals with taxable income of more than...
According to the most recent statistics, almost 30% of U.S. abortions are performed on teenagers. Abortions seem to be commonest among the affluent. "Upper-middle-class girls look at abortion as a means of birth control," says Myra Wood Bennett, a county health official in southern Illinois. The poorer girls, she notes, simply cannot afford it. Federal funding of most abortions for low-income women was barred by Congress in 1976; only nine states have stepped into the breach, providing for abortions without restrictions...