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...executive director of Accion International, a private development organization in Cambridge, Mass. Accion has loaned $75 million to workers in Central and South America and created 100,000 permanent jobs. When Accion decided to widen its mission to fight poverty in the U.S., it dispatched Delma Soto-Larsen to start a self-employment project in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn. She has an M.B.A. and has worked for Citibank and Chemical Bank, but her real education began when Accion sent her to Colombia to unlearn all that she had been taught. "You're doing everything that all the books tell...
Partygoers who like to ring in the New Year with Dom Perignon may have to make do with his cheaper relations from California or Spain. As the holidays arrive, champagne prices are expected to start popping like corks. American consumers, who now pay about $24 for a bottle of nonvintage Moet & Chandon or Taittinger, may have to spend $30 or more this season. A combination of forces is to blame: the weak U.S. dollar, an April frost in France's Champagne region and an effort by vintners to increase profits. During the past decade, French champagne producers pitched their product...
...marriage seemed formidable. To create a high-tech giant that could challenge IBM, former Treasury Secretary W. Michael Blumenthal welded computer also-rans Burroughs and Sperry in 1986 to create Unisys Corp. But after a fast start, Unisys has suffered from lagging technology and sagging military spending. With the company in turmoil, Blumenthal, 64, retired as chairman last week to concentrate on his role as a partner in the Lazard Freres investment-banking firm. He had stepped down as chief executive when he joined Lazard last April...
Clown Care got its start in 1986, when an official at Babies Hospital asked if Big Apple Circus clowns would entertain at a gathering for patients and their families. Christensen and fellow clown Jeff Gordon obliged, performing a 20-minute parody of hospital personnel, food and procedures. Patients and staff alike roared with laughter, especially when the clowns coaxed the otherwise formal chief surgeon into participating in a silly bell-ringing routine. The session, says Christensen, was "the most fulfilling 20 minutes of my professional career, and it was from that experience that the C.C.U. plan took root...
...short of war. But a growing ambivalence pervades the enterprise nonetheless. The "wait a minute" second thoughts echoing on Capitol Hill -- a skittishness in marked contrast to the "let's get him" talk of several weeks ago -- reflects an increasing reluctance among the American public to start shooting...