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MOST national Democrats favor the change because of the capricious nature of Iowa and New Hampshire contests. Relative unknowns could pull off surprise early victories in the unpredictable world of Iowa caucusing, but could be unable to woo the rest of the nation. California's size and variety should favor candidates with more diverse appeal--and more money...
Junk bonds were a little-known security when Milken opened Drexel's Beverly Hills office in 1978. Seated at an X-shaped trading desk, Milken first peddled junk for small and medium-size companies whose weak credit ratings kept them from issuing bonds that paid lower interest rates. When investors snapped up the junk, Milken expanded the market for his new securities. The tireless promoter argued that the risk of a junk-bond default was scarcely greater than the risk for blue-chip corporate bonds. Since junk securities paid interest rates about six percentage points higher than conventional bonds, Milken...
Furthermore, says Miegel, the concerns about Germany's economic dominance of the European Community are overstated. "A sober examination," he says, "reveals that this economic giant is by European standards a medium-size country in which the population is declining and at the same time beginning...
...take practically anybody," says Street News founder and editor in chief Hutchinson Persons, 33. Persons, a former rock musician, created the tabloid-size publication with borrowed money and donations so that homeless people could make money selling it instead of begging. Since Street News debuted four months ago, says Persons, nearly 1,000 homeless and near homeless men and women have sold more than 1 million copies in New York City. Beginning next month the paper will also be available in Philadelphia, the first of five additional cities where it is targeted for distribution by year...
...Chamorro wins, many Nicaraguans doubt that the Sandinistas would willingly relinquish power to her, especially control of the 70,000-member armed forces, which is called the Sandinista People's Army and is the main guarantor of the F.S.L.N.'s power. Chamorro favors drastically reducing the army's size. If Ortega should win in a fair election, the U.S. would be under pressure to normalize relations with Managua or at the very least to lift the economic boycott imposed in 1985. For now, the Bush Administration is taking a tough stance, promising to improve relations with the Sandinistas if they...