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In the U.S., foot-and-mouth disease has been stamped out, thanks to the Department of Agriculture's vigilant policies against importing livestock from infected areas. But elsewhere in the world, foot-and-mouth costs farmers tens of thousands of animals and billions of dollars a year. Scientists have...
"I've never backed away from a fight," says Donald Regan, 62, World War II Marine and former chairman of Merrill Lynch & Co., largest brokerage firm in the country. In the past several months, the Treasury Secretary has remained true to his word. As point man in the Administration...
In any event, the Faculty meeting reinforced Bok's growing conviction that Harvard and its professors would not make good business bedfellows. When he announced the breaking off of the engagement (speaking for the Harvard Corporation, which had rubber stamped the president's decision), Bok attempted to untangle the dead...
Bankers' acceptances are widely used in foreign trade transactions. If an exporter sells a shipment of goods to a foreign customer, three months or more can go by before the exporter gets paid. Meanwhile, he must carry the cost of the goods he has already sold and shipped. To...
Those faces-stamped, printed and painted on nearly everything-are not, alas, always recognizable. The Guardian sneered that a foreign visitor might suppose "that we were preparing to celebrate the wedding of Miss Bo Derek to the late Count Dracula." Nor do all the portraits meet the palace directive that...