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According to year-end public-opinion polls, Barbara Bush is the world's most admired woman by a landslide, and still gaining. Author Carl Sferrazza Anthony, chronicler of First Ladies, proclaims her two years on the job "utterly unique." She has avoided plunging into the President's business and generating the kind of hostility stirred up by Eleanor Roosevelt. Yet she heard the human cries and carried the banner for compassion when the Administration's number crunchers studied the bleak budget ledgers and looked the other...
Among those who took advantage of the year-end sale were some of the savviest business minds in the country: former Treasury Secretary William Simon, former Commerce Secretary Peter Peterson, Revlon chairman Ronald Perelman and financier Robert Bass. Simon was assisted in his low-cost purchase of a $1 billion California thrift by Preston Martin, who served as vice chairman of the Federal Reserve Board from...
...almost entirely on export markets to fuel their growth, they remain especially sensitive to the economic well-being of their trading partners. With oil prices rising and the U.S. economy slowing down, traders in the smaller stock markets are looking glum: in Taipei, shares have plummeted 65% from their year-end high, while the Bangkok market has slipped 40% in just two weeks...
...movies? When this summer is past, the studios will have to top themselves again for the big Christmas season. No problem there. Sylvester Stallone reportedly will be paid $20 million to write and star in Rocky V, a $40 million MGM/UA release due in December. The year-end holidays will also bring to the screen Francis Ford Coppola's Godfather III. The problem-plagued sequel was originally budgeted at $44 million, but it could become the first film to top $100 million...
Faculty members who participated in the study pointed out that feedback collected during a course, when immediate changes and midcourse corrections are possible, are more valuable than year-end assessments...