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...about an overvalued U.S. dollar that had led to a dismal American trade deficit. Baker reversed that stance with the September 1985 Plaza accord, a five-nation cooperative attempt to hasten the dollar's decline. Baker tried to use the dollar's continuing fall as a diplomatic tool. His aim: to chivy West Germany and Japan into expanding their domestic economies, while counting on the U.S. currency's drop in value to start reversing the ugly trade figures...
...Angeles and was a mere eighth-round draft choice in 1980 because most of the baseball scouts were afraid to venture into the neighborhood. From the sound of it, the place had its charm. Davis, Darryl Strawberry of the Mets and Chris Brown of the Giants all took aim at the same high fence enclosing the 68th Street playground. They shot for 70th Street, and beyond...
...acting, at least in the conventional sense of the word. Performing is something that Beatty, whom Thomson calls a man "doubting and growing querulous . . . at the advisability of the whole pretense," must infrequently and reluctantly do in order to secure a larger, much more complex and devious aim...
...like the Macintosh. So last week Apple announced plans to set up a well-financed, independent software company that could eventually rank among the industry's top five producers. The new concern will initially develop software only for Apple machines under an unspecified non-Apple name. The company will aim in part to seek out hot new ideas from small-time independent programmers who lack the resources to market their products. So, just like Apple's first computer, the next software breakthrough may be discovered in somebody's garage...
...fashion, less is usually more, meaning that attention has long focused on the American consumer who wears size 14 (roughly 5 ft. 4 in., 150 lbs.) and under. Now U.S. manufacturers and retailers are beginning to discover that more can be more too. They are taking increasingly solicitous aim at a zaftig audience that wants to look good in anything from size 16 (usually about 160 lbs.) to, well, a lot more than that. Along the way, these merchandisers are reaping impressive profits by catering more assiduously to a roughly $10 billion sector of the fashion market. Says Nancye Radmin...