Economist (US), The

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Articles in October, 1990 issue of Economist (US), The

• Too much dazzle, Asil. (Asil Nadir; Polly Peck International) (Finance)
• Figures that make sense, please. (Soviet company accounting) (Business)
• Can't pay, will pay: pay is rising too fast in British companies; blame inadequate training and skill shortages, not bloody-minded trade unions or wimp bosses. (Britain)
• Rules, what rules? (Argentina) (International)
• Blood overlooked. (Lebanon) (International)
• No longer the party of Lincoln. (Republican party; Lexington) (American Survey)
• Television pilloried. (British government wants less partial television) (editorial)
• United in disunion; will it hold together? (A Survey of the Soviet Union)
  by Parker, John (American soldier)
• The Mexican as laureate. (Octavio Paz, new Nobel laureate)
  by Spender, Stephen
• Three pioneers of finance. (Nobel prize for economics)
• And now for something.... (former "Monty Python" actor John Cleese on US lecture series to show businessmen how to be creative)
• May we cut in? (Japan and North Korea)
• The grey lining to the silver cloud; fingers crossed, America's recession will be short and shallow.
• The big squeeze: life for non-life insurers has grown tough again. (A Question of Balance: A Survey of American Insurance)
• Running to Maputo. (Books and Arts)
• Aoun out. (Lebanon)
• A taste of glory. (Le Duc Tho) (obituary)
• Last one out of Gotham, close the door; New York has always been expensive, dirty, dangerous and slightly mad. In recent months even its inhabitants seem to have noticed.
• The melting pot boils over. (immigration to California) (Success and Excess: a Survey of California)
• Nations and Nationalism Since 1780.
• No exotica today, thank you. (country funds) (Finance)
• Clever, like the lemming. (memory chips) (Business )
• Golden moment. (Winston Churchill's announcement of the return of the pound to the gold standard) (Britain)
• Peppery. (French Guiana) (International)
• Shadow of a doubt. (Pakistan) (Asia)
• The rising of the whites. (Louisiana's senate race) (American Survey)
• The silence of re-reading. (death of Alberto Moravia) (obituary)
• An oily art, not glib. (commodity swaps)
• UnlovaBull. (European computer firms)
• A circulation blockage; stiffer competition in the quality-Sundays market seems to have run into a growing disenchantment with what the papers offer.
• A relationship the in balance. (France and Germany )
• Kohl's country. (Helmut Kohl, Germany)
• Blind men's bluff. (Brazilian debt) (Finance)
• A recipe for trade reform. (new World Bank study; economics focus) (Business)
• Another winter of discontent. (Romania) (Europe)
• One step forward.... (South Africa) (International )
• The dangers of a phoney war. (Kuwait-Iraq Conflict, 1990) (International)
• Letting them out of jail. (justice in Alabama) (American Survey)
• Trade betrayed: in protectionism's hall of infamy, after Smoot-Hawley read Kohl-MacSherry. (Helmut Kohl, Ray MacSherry refuse to offer credible farm support cuts to General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade) (editorial)
• After the ball; the choice between autocracy and multi-party democracy. (A Survey of the Soviet Union)
  by Parker, John (American soldier)
• Stalin's Apologist: Walter Duranty, the New York Time's Man in Moscow.
• Customers? No way. (Hungarian banking)
• Pulp profits. (Reader's Digest)
• A courtly escape. (India and more government jobs to members of lower castes)
• More people, bigger cities, greater wealth, worse filth. (pollution in Asia)
• Worry early and avoid the rush; towards a new safety net, and a new social contract. (A Question of Balance: A Survey of American Insurance)
• KGB: The Inside Story. (Books and Arts)
• Scapegoat or scapegrace? (Israel)
• Cardinal's sin. (Cardinal John O'Connor and Catholic politicians) (Lexington)
• In praise of Bunty Frobisher; much has changed since the City of London's Big Bang. But some things are eternal. (editorial)
• They paved paradise.... (Success and Excess: a Survey of California)
• India: A Million Mutinies Now.
• High noon at the Suez corral. (battle for top spot at Compagnie Financiere de Suez) (Finance)
• The lost tycoons. (Australian entrepreneurs) (Business)
• The difference about Sunday. (Dutch to bring out first Sunday paper in 50 years) (Europe)
• Liberia's cowboys. (keeping the peace in Liberia) (International)
• David and Goliath. (Hong Kong) (Asia)
• A plague on both your houses. (partisan battle of the budget) (American Survey)
• The Lord Chamberlain's Blue Pencil.
• Tisch's taste. (Laurence Tisch)
• Third time lucky? (oil shocks)
• Waste a lot, want a lot. (European Commission's employment practices)
• The return of Caligula. (Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney appoints 24 new senators)
• An unborn nation. (Eritrea)
• Looking for wider horizons; British broadcasters have been eyeing the commercial prospects for a global television-news service - and finding reasons to be cautious.
• Bleaker houses. (forecast for company profits worldwide; profits outlook) (Business)
• Shaky ground. (building controls) (Britain)
• The two faces of Poland. (Europe)
• A foul peace dividend for the Pacific. (Pacific is becoming the rubbish dump of the world) (Asia)
• The under-nannies take over. (Singapore After Lee)
• Old mammon. (Booker Prize for Fiction)
• Mars on the cheap. (Martin Marietta proposal)
• Le Mans or lemon? (Jaguar) (company profile)
• Violence comes to Shangri-La; the monarchies of Bhutan and Nepal are changing: Bhutan's violently, Nepal's confusedly.
• Must say no. (peyote in ceremonies of the Native American Church)
• America's budget mouse; if the summit's deal had been any feebler, the results would have been invisible. (editorial)
• Underneath the Archers. (leisure company to build a theme park around the fictional town of Ambridge in BBC's longest-running radio serial 'The Archers')
• Hurry, while stocks last. (foreign-language bookshop in Sofia, Bulgaria) (Books and Arts)
• Closing down the launderette. (drug-dealing money) (Finance)
• But the harvest is good. (India)

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