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Government Subsidies. Most nations use loans, grants or other subsidies to help their industries compete against imports and build up export markets. Airbus Industrie, the passenger-jet manufacturer financed by the governments of France, West Germany, Britain and Spain, offers unusually attractive deals to customers. When Pan American agreed to purchase 28 jets in May, Airbus allowed the airline to postpone payments for a year. Last month Airbus won a contract to sell 19 planes to Indian Airlines for a price that was reportedly discounted as much...
...million). In the U.S., Gucci gewgaws can be found on Fifth Avenue and Rodeo Drive, as well as in department stores like Macy's and Denver Dry Goods. Great care is taken to maintain the quality that has earned the loyalty of such customers as King Juan Carlos of Spain and Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev's wife Raisa, as well as of those of more modest means who can afford only the occasional status symbol...
...rental car's tire, and when a flat develops on the Autostrada del Sole, they pull alongside, offering to help change the tire. Before a victim can say grazie, his luggage is out of the trunk and speeding down the road. Bolder thieves on the outskirts of Seville, Spain, smash the car windows of cathedral-bound sightseers stopped at traffic lights and snatch purses in the resulting panic. London's light- fingered sophisticates are so prevalent on Oxford Street, home of department stores, that Selfridges broadcasts reminders to watch out for them, and an American lawyer noted that he found...
...conference got under way last week, the Soviets did not appear. Instead Moscow simply sent a message to the conference organizer inviting him to the Soviet Union to discuss "our scientific relationship." Speculation as to why the Soviets did not attend has centered on the disappearance in Spain last spring of top Soviet mathematician Vladimir Alexandrov...
Perry did well at the demanding school, earning honors status. He also participated in the School Year Abroad program, spending his junior year in Spain. Edward Sainatti, the resident director of the program, recalled in an interview with the Times that Edmund was "honest and forthright," but seemed to have "a chip on his shoulder." Edmund's mixed feelings about the new world opening before him were captured in the farewell note to Exeter that he wrote in his senior yearbook: "It's a pity that we part on less than a friendly basis," he wrote. "Work to adjust yourself...