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Iran has been trying to induce other members of the OPEC cartel to refuse payment for oil in dollars and instead to demand a "basket" of other currencies, presumably West German marks, Swiss and French francs, and Japanese yen. In fact, there is not nearly enough of these currencies available...
Using its new muscle, the agency became the nation's nanny. An FTC administrative judge challenged Pitching Star Vida Blue's pitches for drinking milk because blacks often have trouble digesting milk. The commission proposed a truth-in-menu rule that might mean, for example, that no restaurant...
John Connally: The business community's favorite candidate has put together the most comprehensive program. About a dozen right-leaning economists, including Charls Walker, Murray Weidenbaum and Albert Cox, are threshing out positions for him on everything from a value added tax (he sees merit in the idea but...
"But if he does," says Grossman, "he learns a whole lot. He also gains a certain confidence in the company because it backed him up. We have to be damn sure that we don't make anybody so scared that he will be afraid to float a suggestion or...
The year's most perverse children's book is Raymond Briggs' Fungus the Bogeyman (Random House; $4.95). Fungus is free to do what kids cannot: live underground, put grease in his hair, make things go bump in the night and in general be a grain of sand...