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...punitive damages for breach of contract and unfair competition, among other charges. The trial is scheduled to begin Oct. 10. Among the issues is a new global noncompetition clause in Tricon's international franchise agreement, which stipulates that franchisees need Tricon's permission to operate any other food business, even ones that don't compete with pizza, chicken or Mexican cuisine, anywhere in the world. Heinecke's previous contracts with the firm barred him only from opening rival pizza outlets. "How can the U.S., which advocates free trade and competition, support that kind of restrictive practice?" Heinecke asks. Says Peter...
Heinecke says he can't agree to the clause because pizza isn't his only business. It wasn't even his first. Four years after moving to Thailand in 1963, Heinecke borrowed $1,200 from a loan shark to open an office-cleaning service and a public relations company. He made his first million before age 21. While pizza franchises were popping up all across America during the late '70s, he came to believe that if Thais were exposed to pizza, they would like it. "I operate on the belief that, fundamentally, we're all more similar than dissimilar...
...Even if the boom does roll on for a decade longer, there is a question of which approach, Bush's or Gore's, would leave the economy in the best shape to weather the shocks foreseeable a quarter-century or so ahead. In the view of the less partisan members of TIME's board, the answer is, neither. But the competing plans pose quite different answers to the question of how best to distribute the benefits--or more bluntly, to that fundamental political question, Who gets what...
...willing to shoulder the risk alone. Take Scott Martin, CEO of software developer diCarta in Redwood City, Calif. His firm will spend $4.5 million on R. and D. this year and claim a $100,000 tax credit. Martin readily admits he would be spending at his current pace even without the R.-and-D. credit. "We're a start-up," he says. "We have to spend, or we're dead...
...haven, for imposing so few financial controls that "money laundering can thrive." Last February Austria narrowly escaped being booted out of the FATF, which has grown to 26 member governments and two regional organizations, by agreeing not to permit any more anonymous savings accounts to be opened. Even Israel was scolded for not doing enough to stop hot money from sloshing through its banks...