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While Detroit's automakers have been aided by six years of quotas on imported Japanese cars, guess who else has benefited handsomely? Answer: the very rivals that the quotas sought to curb. The trade limits created a shortage of Japanese autos in U.S. showrooms, thus enabling their makers to raise prices and boost their revenues by as much as $2 billion a year. That extra profit, which came out of the pockets of U.S. consumers, gave the Japanese automakers even more money for research to improve their competitive position against Detroit...
After three years the Mulroney government has yet to demonstrate it can ! effectively lead the country, run the government or keep its promises to curb the kind of corruption that helped finish off the Liberals. Mulroney, 47, has surrounded himself with friends chosen for loyalty rather than expertise. He has never developed or articulated a national agenda for Canada or shown himself to have a tight grip on the reins of government. Although Canada's growth rate of 3.3% for the past two years is second only to that of Japan, the government has problems. Time after time, major decisions...
...further research proves that the amyloid protein is the cause of Alzheimer's rather than just a symptom of the disorder, researchers could begin the search for a drug to curb its production. The markers found by Gusella's team could lead to even more immediate results: isolation of the gene that causes familial Alzheimer's. And this would enable doctors to identify some victims of the disease before their symptoms appear...
...regressive, hitting mainly the poor. New Jersey's Democratic Senator Bill Bradley has proposed a narrower bill, disallowing advertising costs for tobacco products as a tax-deductible business expense, which he says would raise $2 billion over three years. A number of corporations have moved to curb smoking in the workplace. For example, Chicago's Northern Trust Bank last month announced a ban on all smoking by its 4,500 employees except in lounges. It offered stop-smoking clinics to the 25% of its employees who indulge. USG Corp., also based in Chicago, has said that it would dismiss...
...church officials estimate that it ran a deficit of $56 million last year. The freeze means that the Cardinals who run Vatican ministries will go without a pay raise and that papal ambassadors around the world will have to watch their expense accounts. The Pope will not have to curb his travel schedule, however, since his trips are mostly paid for by local churches...