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...Du Pont, IBM, General Foods and thousands of other U.S. companies decorate foreign landscapes, creating jobs and contributing to the host country's prosperity...
...world." While Bermuda, the Bahamas and The Netherlands Antilles loudly proclaim themselves tax havens, Luxembourg has quietly become a veritable tax heaven. Unlike any other Common Market country, it imposes practically no taxes on holding companies. Luxembourg now has more such enterprises (2,300) than it has soldiers (550). Du Pont, Uniroyal, Olivetti, Amo- co and other multinational giants have set up holding companies there and pay dividends and interest to them, taxfree. The holding companies then use the money to finance parent-company operations in other countries. Luxembourg is also a favorite neutral meeting ground for partners in joint...
...keenly disappointed," said an official at Shell Oil, which had proposed a $100 million littoral refinery. "We're particularly sorry to see that emotionalism was permitted to obscure the fact that we are capable of building a clean refinery." But Peterson, himself a former Du Pont executive, has become convinced that performance controls "are not an effective enough safeguard" against pollution; he especially fears for the state's handsome beaches which now support a thriving tourist business. Besides, the Governor warned, a massive influx of industrial workers "could build population pressure that would create more problems than...
...true literary pilgrim starts his visit at Mme. Benoist's pátisserie on the Place du Marché, where he begins his evocation of the past by biting into the shell-shaped confection called a madeleine. Ten years ago, the bubbly Mme. Benoist sold only four madeleines a week. "In the past three weeks," she says, "we've sold 1,000. We had to hire another apprentice." Many of those who buy the little cakes (at 12? apiece) are foreigners, for Proust's masterwork has been translated into 17 languages, including Finnish, Japanese and Serbo-Croatian...
...onie's" across the Loir River (not to be confused with the Loire) takes the pilgrim to the Pré Catalan. The five-acre garden was created by Proust's uncle, a cloth merchant in Illiers, as a replica of the area in Paris' Bois du Bologne that bears the same name. The little lagoons, intricate patterns of shade trees, and the tiny lane lined with hawthorns (whose pink blossoms reminded Proust of his favorite dish, strawberries crushed in cream cheese) became Swann's park, and it is there that the novel's thinly fictionalized...