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...improve corporate transparency and accountability - the unmistakable sound of tut-tutting can be heard across the Continent: many business leaders contend that Enron-style abuses simply couldn't happen on their turf. "Our situation is profoundly different from the American one," says Daniel Bouton, CEO of the French bank Société Generale and head of a corporate governance group set up by French business. "We already have the supervision here that is now being put in place in the U.S." Maybe so, but in Brussels a very different picture is emerging about the efficacy of European corporate oversight...
...Société Anonyme Belge d'Exploitation de la Navigation Aérienne (Sabena) is founded, flying commercial routes within Europe...
...will have to cope with the fiddly exchange rate of 6.56 francs to ?1. ("It's easy," says another Paris greengrocer, displaying his mathematical prowess. "You just divide by 50% and add that to the original, then times by 10 ..." Well, the good news is that big banks like Société Générale have passed out free calculators.) Even the Germans, who merely had to chop the old deutsche mark prices in half, seem slightly perplexed. Almost 50% of Germans polled by Allensbach, an opinion researcher, thought a new Volkswagen Polo priced...
Comparisons to final clubs do not end there. Although Sigma Alpha Mu's local officers say that their group will not base membership on race, religion or soci-economic status, members acknowledge that the group is all male and relatively homogenous...
...Fiske of the American Civil Liberties Union. Opponents fear that because of its loose wording, the measure could open the way for legislation that would endanger bilingual ballots, educational programs, emergency services and television programming, all of which aid immigrants, especially the elderly, to adjust to an English-speaking soci- ety. It could also, warns Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley, "stir hatred and animosity. It could tear us apart as a people...