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...region and leave a vast market to foreign firms. Kuwait will have to borrow to finance early projects, and flush Japanese lenders could be an important source of funds. While vowing not to attach strings to such money, Japan could well encourage Kuwait to spend it on the world-class services of Japanese contractors...
...expand across state lines and become financial supermarkets that offer everything from stocks and bonds to life insurance. Treasury said the plan would also seek to shield taxpayers from any replay of the savings and loan fiasco. "If we expect to exert world economic leadership in the 21st century," Brady said, "we must have a modern, world-class financial-services system...
...write a business letter. They have no sense of the work ethic. They also cost a lot of extra money: American firms spend $250 million annually just to teach workers the three Rs. "Because of the failure of our education system to produce graduates who can work at world-class levels, we have a national economic problem on our hands," says William Kolberg, president of the National Alliance of Business, a Washington-based education and policy group...
NOTEBOOK: Harvard travels to Princeton February 2 for what should be a showdown for the Ivy League title and an indicator of who will take Easterns. Much of the meet hinges on Princeton's freshman class, which boasts several talented swimmers. "I hear they're a great team. They've got an incredible freshman class and some of them are world-class," Bernal said. "So what else is new? That's what we expected and we wouldn't want it any other way." Crimson, 163-76 at Blodgett Pool...
...away from prickly concerns about a gringo economic invasion and set U.S.-Mexican relations on a steadier course. Conversely, his approach to Mexico's perennial lawlessness has been firm, from tracking down top drug traffickers to jailing corrupt union and business leaders. Admirers who call Salinas' rapid-fire methods "world-class" say this President is a man in a hurry...