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...estimated 1,400 U.S. firms, including General Motors, General Electric and Honeywell, use the plants to take advantage of a Mexican minimum wage that at current exchange rates is less than 40 cents an hour. Japanese companies like Sony, Sanyo Electric and Hitachi have followed suit, and the resulting boom is transforming border towns like Juarez into bustling industrial centers...
...Gilded Age, Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner depict the boom mentality of the post-Civil War years: "He was born into a time when all young men of his age caught the fever of speculation, and expected to get on in the world by the omission of some of the regular processes which have been appointed from of old." What railroad men and land speculators were to the 1870s, investment bankers and risk arbitragers are to the 1980s. Perhaps a , modern-day Thorstein Veblen could explain the eagerness with which moneymen like Boesky vied with one another in acquiring...
...chief issues on our platform is housing and development," Marzilli said. He added that "in Cambridge there is a great housing shortage along with a building boom, which is unfortunately all commercial. This reduces the housing that is available...
Unitedbank's fall resulted from the go-go style of Chairman Vincent Kickerillo, a local land developer. Taking over in 1968, Kickerillo overcommitted the bank to real estate loans and investments in other banks during the oil boom of the late '70s and early '80s. When the economy soured in 1982, so did Unitedbank. By this year it was losing $1 million a month. For a time Kickerillo, a self-made millionaire who commuted to work in a jet helicopter, covered the losses himself. But after an audit three weeks ago showed Unitedbank to be $7 million...
...boom is fueled by financial practicalities as well as feminist principles. According to the American Hospital Association, women visit doctors 25% more often than men do and account for 63% of all surgery. Eleven of the 20 most frequent surgical procedures (notably tubal ligations and breast biopsies) are performed only on women. Moreover, women generally choose the family doctor and health-insurance package. Such medical realities have led to fierce and unapologetic wooing. Women's HealthCare and Wellness Center in Oak Park, Ill., signed up Dorothy Hamill, Ann Jillian and Rita Moreno to promote its opening last November. Intermountain Health...