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Articles in August, 1992 issue of Economist (US), The

• Open outcry: China's stockmarkets.
• Budget backsliding.
• Lincoln at Gettysburg.
• Fidelity changes tack. (Fidelity Investment Inc)
• Better broken up: British Gas. (competition in the gas industry)(Britain)
• The push for a southern haven: Iraq. (protecting Southern Iraqis)
• Citius, Altius, Sericius: Chinese athletes. (Olympic athletes)
• The stock-picking fallacy. (stockmarket) (Editorial)
• The Last Tsar: The Life and Death of Nicholas II.
• Banco fiasco: Italian public debt. (government handling of Ente Partecipazioni e Finanziamento Industria Manifatturiera)
• Working for yourself.
• Where's the beef: Ireland.
• Not a good loser: Lebanon. (parliamentary elections)
• An invitation after 2,000 years: Japan.
• The mechanical grandmaster. (mechanical version of checkers) (Editorial)
• The Catholic Families.
• In bonds we trust: Wellcome. (Wellcome Trust, medical charity)
• On Harvard's heels. (business schools in England)
• Snouts to the trough. (European Commission)
• The Escobar escape: Colombia. (escaped drug dealer Pablo Escobar)
• His master's keeper. (Secretary of State James Baker)
• Artificial stupidity. (artificial intelligence) (Editorial)
• A cause of angst: Freud's last year. (London, England home/museum of Sigmund Freud; publication of his 1929-1939 diary)
• Don't clap yet: British insurance.
• An American tragedy: Wang. (Wang Laboratories Inc.)
• If. (French referendum on Maastricht treaty)
• Singapore and the problems of success. (economic growth since 1965)
• Life without inflation. (Group of Seven nations' inflation down to 3% but economic difficulties continue) (Editorial)
• Shooters help the shot. (grouse hunting)
• Gambling on flat screens.
• Sits. vac. galore. (business school management)
• Line goes west: railways. (Britain's western railroads)
• The arts of war and the guiles of peace. (military intervention in the Bosnian civil war)
• At the helm: Nicaragua. (Pres. Violeta Chamorro and the US)
• The Six Wives of Henry VIII.
• Shock, horror. (President Bush and Democratic presidential candidate Bill Clinton) (American Survey) (Column)
• Desperate need, desperate deed. (Somalia) (Editorial)
• Artists or artisans? (potters)
• Going for broke: Russian companies.
• Subsidiarity begins at home. (decentralization of government)(Britain)
• Freight-train blues: Argentina. (train service to poor provinces)
• The merry wives of Washington. (Barbara Bush and Hillary Clinton) (American Survey) (Column)
• One cheer for Thailand. (Editorial)
• Lorenzo the Inconsiderable. (quincentenary anniversary of the death of Lorenzo de Medici)
• Name-dropping: Lloyd's of London. (less capital supporters leaving insurance market)
• Where there's dust, there's dollars. (marketing coir dust)
• Violence wins, the police blush: the Rostock riots. (Germany)
• The right stuff: Arab-Israeli peace talks.
• Sino trouble: trade with China. (American Survey)
• Dirty Mr Clean. (Brazilian President Fernando Fernando Collor de Mello) (Editorial)
• Viennese stage: Theatre Museum.
• Distressed gents: Lloyd's of London. (new chairman to take over ailing bank)
• Washed up. (environmental impact of dish washing)
• Yeltsin's coup: Russia. (President Boris Yeltsin)
• Everything the other is not: Islam and the West.
• T'd off. (Ice-T withdraws recording 'Cop Killer' from his album)
• Mr Clinton, meet Mr Kinnock. (Democrats learn from Labor Party loss)
• That certain Japanese lightness. (modern architecture in Japan)
• The ecu-bond market totters. (European currency unit)
• Policing thoughts. (intellectual property)
• The lord of the transmitters: Italy. (tycoon Silvio Berlusconi)
• No peace, no justice: the law. (retrial of officers accused of beating Rodney King) (American Survey)
• Back to the Gulf. (ban on Iraqi flights in own country) (Editorial) (Cover Story)
• Trollope.
• Revisiting the dividend controversy.
• Jobbers: underemployment in Japan.
• Britannia rules the waverers. (caution urged in contemplating intervention in Bosnia-Herzegovina)
• Power-sharing? Haiti.
• Mending the people's car: Mexico. (automobile industry)
• Quenching the tiger's thirst: Asian energy.
• A moral quagmire. (foreign policy) (American Survey)
• Riot, Risings, and Revolution: Governance and Violence in Eighteenth-Century England.
• The web rips: Japanese trading companies.
• In a hole: rubbish. (proposed taxes on landfill dumping)
• Magister ludi: Italy. (government corruption, economic difficulties, and politics in Italy)
• Bold as brass: Pakistan. (army)
• California failing. (American Survey)
• The Red Hand: Protestant Paramilitaries in Northern Ireland.(Brief Article)
• Olympian depths. (office development Canary Wharf, owner Olympia and York)
• Out of fashion: sports cars in America. (sales are down)

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