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Major political positions: He is fiscally conservative, favoring the Citizens for Limited Taxation proposal that would roll back taxes and fees to their mid-1988 levels. Weld has called for zero-based budgeting to manage the state's finances. Weld is avidly pro-choice on abortion, and has stressed his commitment to the environment...
...economic growth 1 percentage point a year. But petroleum has already risen more than that, and subtracting a point from growth leaves almost nothing. So if prices stay put, says a Bush Administration official, "growth is going to be a giant goose egg for the year. A big fat zero...
McCartney took the zero-risk option and waited until his LP faded off of Billboard's charts, lest recent success detract from his old standards. The crowds, desperately weary of the soundbite, searching for a bit of the past, seemed to especially appreciate the old Beatle ballads...
...chewed up market share by buying local banks, particularly on the West Coast. Mitsubishi Bank bought the Bank of California in 1984, while the Bank of Tokyo acquired the Union Bank of Los Angeles in 1988. The Japanese own four of California's 10 largest banks. Starting from near zero five years ago, Japanese banks account for at least 10% of all commercial loans made...
Bret Easton Ellis, author of Less Than Zero and a leader of Manhattan's literary brat pack, has a novel due out next February that is already causing controversy. Staff members at Simon & Schuster who have read the manuscript, titled American Psycho, say it chronicles a young Wall Street banker who is involved in sexual perversities, murders, mutilations and diverse other grotesqueries and degradations. Robert Asahina, Ellis' editor, allows, "It is a book that can be at times upsetting to read." Some are so upset that they have balked at working on the novel. But Ellis has his defenders...