Word: analysts
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...action is part of GM's campaign to concentrate operations in its most efficient plants, most notably its new Saturn factory in Tennessee. "GM wants to begin the decade of the '90s with a clean slate," says Scott Merlis, an analyst with the investment firm Morgan Stanley. The automaker's latest downsizing, which will eliminate an estimated 20,000 jobs, drew no protest from the United Auto Workers. One reason is that the U.A.W.'s new contract with GM allows many workers who lose their jobs to get severance equal to as much as three years...
...certain extent, the turmoil that now threatens Indian democracy may be a consequence of its very success. During the 1980s the Indian economy grew at an unprecedented rate of more than 5% a year, largely owing to Rajiv Gandhi's liberalization policies. According to Swaminathan Aiyar, a leading economic analyst with the New Delhi-based Times of India, that growth may have lifted as many as 150 million Indians above the poverty line, reducing from 48% to 29% the portion of the population that is officially poor...
...instead of soaring past his rival, the Republican challenger has fallen nearly out of the race. Thomas Kiley, a Boston political analyst, says that the candidate "is now almost at the point of unelectability...
...flowing freely. Today real estate firms in Britain are confronting base interest rates of 14%, stagnant growth and a lingering hangover after years of overbuilding. Commercial rents in London, which reached about $130 per sq. ft. a year ago, have fallen nearly 25% since then. Chris Walls, a property analyst at Salomon Brothers in London, predicts that rents will decline to less than $100 per sq. ft. by the end of the year. The vacancy rate in central London is 11%, up from 5% in mid-1989. In the City, London's financial district, it hovers around...
Nonetheless, most people approach the idea with a bit of nervousness. Joe, a lawyer, and Tara, a financial analyst (the names in this story have been changed), had been married a few months and were watching an adult film at their New York City apartment, when Tara kiddingly suggested, "Why don't we make our own?" Two months later, after consultation with a therapist, the pair re-created their wedding night on camera. Joe wore his tuxedo, Tara her bridal gown -- at least initially...