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Wall Street's experiment to woo back small investors with competitive commissions arrived last week-on little cat feet. The Securities and Exchange Commission ordered that, beginning April 1, brokers who are members of the New York or American Stock Exchange must substitute flexible rates for their old fixed commissions on trades under $2,000. The idea is to get more firms to vie vigorously for small transactions and to give customers of modest means a saving on trading costs. Yet, reflecting the caution of the ailing securities industry, the effort got off to a sluggish start. Only...
...recommended. In Stoke-on-Trent, C.O.G. pitchmen greet the uninitiated temptingly: "Want to read something sexy, something that'll turn you on?" Elsewhere, they take a different line: recent C.O.G. immigrants to France, where their name is les Enfants de Dieu, have taken Berg's advice to woo Roman Catholics, whom he admires as doctrinaire soul mates. ("Kiss the Pope's foot if necessary," he advises.) It has apparently worked: a priest at Notre Dame found them lodgings near the famed cathedral, and Le Monde's religion writer lauded the spontaneity and faith of "the missionaries...
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...only failing in this excellent production of Pinafore is the gimmickry. During the Lord Admiral's attempt to woo Josephine, director Lindsay Davis inserts some unnecessary slapstick which detracts from the Gilbert humor. Dick Deadeye (Phillip Baas) does not wear the usual eyepatch but sports instead a "dead eye" which, from the balcony, looks like a wart. He is also equipped with a hook for a left hand...
...move toward liberalization is designed to woo back much needed foreign investment capital and assuage European hostility to Greece's bid for full membership in the Common Market. With inflation running at 30%, Papadopoulos cannot hope to keep the lid on serious discontent unless there is a turnabout in the economy some time soon. Markezinis could help bring that change about. He is a palatable politician who was judicious enough not to attack the junta. He is also a brilliant lawyer, credited with having engineered Greece's postwar economic recovery in the 1950s when he served as Minister...