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...process to make digital images of 250,000 claims a day. Even police departments are beginning to use the technology for storing mug shots and fingerprints. Digital-image management is already a $1.8 billion industry, and could grow to $11 billion in North America by 1996, according to BIS Strategic Decisions, a Massachusetts-based consulting firm...
...writes the same prescription: cut the government deficit, increase the savings rate, end wasteful subsidies of coddled industries like agriculture, increase investment in infrastructure and education. Just last month the Bank for International Settlements -- the central bank of the world's central banks -- weighed in with precisely this advice. BIS noted that the U.S. net savings rate was 4% of GNP in the 1980s, compared with 20.9% in Japan. American public investment on roads, bridges, airports and so on is down to 0.25% of GNP, compared with 5.7% in Japan. And by no coincidence, our standard of living...
...thing, of course, but thick faux furs and diaphanous fabric in sexy, primitive patterns. And the customers cannot seem to get enough of them: they're snapping up zebra-stripe blazers, panther-print pumps, fake tiger coats, imitation ocelot boleros and giraffe pants. Says a spokesman for Paris' Dorothee Bis: "It's the theme of the year...
Friends say that Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul often talks in bis, a reference to the musical notation for "repeat phrase." But what could be mistaken for an affectation is actually a ritual of concentration that is performed on something as simple as the way a lintel rests on an ancient pillar or as complex as how the past weighs on the present...
...that way. People turn things around. I'm for individual rights and for law." It is a long view that includes his fascination with ancient Rome ("I can barely express my admiration for it") and the imperial record of the English. Their achievement calls forth some of his best bis: "Pretty terrific. It would be churlish to say otherwise. It would be foolish to say otherwise. It would be unhistorical to say otherwise...