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Sometimes dubbed Singapore, Inc., the nation had its credo set by visionary economic architect Goh Keng Swee: "Government policy must be directed to the pursuit of business excellence." The country is the world's busiest container port, the third largest oil-refining center, the major exporter of computer disk drives. Its manufacturing relies on multinational corporations, and it has attracted some 3,000 foreign companies with generous tax breaks, ultramodern telecommunications, an efficient airport and tame labor unions...
Regardless of the restrictions, studentscontinue to flock to the Head of the Charles,making the weekend one of the busiest of the yearon the Harvard campus...
...large industries have been holding their own on the job front. U.S. automakers have boosted employment from last year's depressed levels as buyers, lured by discounts on attractive new models, have begun returning to showroom floors. Betting that the turnaround will continue, Detroit has planned its busiest third-quarter production schedule in six years. The biggest employment gains have come in health care, which remains a necessity for Americans even as medical costs soar into the stratosphere. In a similar way, people's demands for education and other public services have boosted jobs in state and local governments even...
Christmas comes but once a year -- for which Londoners can be thankful, since the Irish Republican Army has chosen to mark the season with terrorist attacks. Last week a bomb exploded at London's Clapham Junction, the country's busiest railway intersection. No one was injured, but an estimated 500,000 commuters were affected and the city's businesses could lose around $90 million...
...Desert Storm vets -- five of the six women in one unit. In San Diego 318 Marine wives have been sent to community hospitals for prenatal care because the docs at Camp Pendleton are swamped. Doctors at Fort Stewart, Georgia, expect to deliver 40 babies on Christmas -- three times the busiest day in memory. No more silent nights for those folks...