Word: mcgraw
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...goods. Among veteran performers starring in new series are William Conrad as a wily district attorney in Jake and the Fatman, Paul Sorvino as a police- department p.r. man who returns to the streets in The Oldest Rookie, Jerry Orbach as a private eye in The Law and Harry McGraw, and Dale Robertson as a crime-solving Texas billionaire in J.J. Starbuck. Only Robertson seems to be truly enjoying the work. NBC's Private Eye, created by Anthony Yerkovich (Miami Vice), is hipper but not much better. Star Michael Woods, as a disgraced cop who becomes a private...
...toxic cloud leaked from a Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal, India, causing history's biggest industrial accident, a new book alleges that the tragedy may have been even more gruesome than assumed. The Indian government has said 2,700 people died at Bhopal. But in A Killing Wind (McGraw-Hill; 297 pages; $19.95), Author Dan Kurzman asserts that the death toll was at least 8,000. He speculates that Indian officials understated the figures in part to "keep the political shock waves under control...
...McGraw said that while Japanese save more than a quarter of their incomes, U.S. consumers annually spend 5 percent more than they earn. Japan's austerity mentality, a relie from post-WWII poverty, holds the country's standard of living well below what it can afford, he said...
...authors said they hope that the book, which will be released simultaneously in Japan and the U.S., will increase public awareness of potential disaster. McGraw said, "It's trying to educate the Americans about the Japanese and the Japanese about the Americans, and both about themselves...
...past, inflation has often flared up when consumer demand outstripped the ability of American factories to produce enough goods. But that is not likely to happen again soon, Economist Heller pointed out. He noted that U.S. companies are expanding their factory capacities by 5% this year, according to a McGraw-Hill survey, and that current plants have plenty of room for new production. Said Heller: "Excess-demand inflation is not onstage or in the wings...