Abstracts: Private lessons
Abstracts: Collision course: Mahaney and Bertrand. Owners honor roll. Under the gun
Abstracts: The ins and outs of jib reefing gear. Ban flogging; adopt the batten. Choosing and using an inverter
Abstracts: Choosing a GPS receiver. What happens when loran loses its way? Choosing and using an inverter
Abstracts: Trend setter. Flying first class. Time-tested
Abstracts: Brewer 65. Perry 30. Doug Zurn 37
Abstracts: Design. Baltic 87 Custom. Perry 30
Abstracts: Brewer 65. Hunt 78. Fox 50
Abstracts: Autopilots: a diode to steer her by. Radar: your yacht's not complete without it. Cutting I: the right tools
Abstracts: Too many ducks? A not-so-modest proposal: if you want lots of ducks, you need sensible limits, not fussy rules
Abstracts: Fine China. Taking up new measures. Practical visionary; CICA Chairman Ron Gage has always looked to the future first, then developed a strategy to make it happen
Abstracts: Moo-vers and shakers. Land of milk and honey. Foreigner exchange favourite
Abstracts: Takin' care of business. Business cards say it all. Blueprint for success
Abstracts: Quick recoveries: auditors can play a role in ensuring that client's disaster recovery plans are adequate - and affordable
Abstracts: Leasing office space: perceptions versus reality. Time to fix the office building business. The valuation virus
Abstracts: The REIT in defeat. Mortgage REITs come of age. REITs: another case of musical chairs?
Abstracts: Fast-growing Asian tigers take on First-World role. Thailand blazes trail: Asian hinterlands become new magnet for investors
Abstracts: Though analysts remain watchful, Thailand weathers currency panic with little damage. Some Thai firms may show resistance to Baht turmoil
Abstracts: As officials try to break up Exim Bank, it looks to win international support. More lenders are shutting down international branches
Abstracts: Bakun project shifts hands. U.S. firms are absent from list of bidders for China dam project. Ekran says revenue from Bakun project to begin belatedly
Abstracts: Cash-strapped Burma looks to tourism to resuscitate its lagging economy. China becomes top source of tourists for Hong Kong
Abstracts: Brown moves to defend U.S. consortium in disputed contract for Thai airport. Bangkok officials will seek revisions to IMF package
Abstracts: Malaysia to trade in cars, aircraft with Indonesia. Citroen, USPD set pact to build cars in Malaysia. Yahaya's purchase of 32% stake in Hicom could make him Malaysia's auto czar
Abstracts: Shanghai is poised for surge in foreign direct investment: city officials predict inflows of almost $15 billion from abroad over the next three years
Abstracts: Pressure rises at Volkswagen's joint ventures in China. Rules of the road in China slow car industry's growth
Abstracts: Arrest could spell trouble for China's elite families. Fall of Beijing party chief could signal beginning of an all-out power struggle
Abstracts: Mark Mobius' bald head is centerpiece of ad campaign by Templeton in colony. Indochina funds require hard-boiled, patient investors
Abstracts: Managers of China funds aim for more freedom of choice. Home-field advantage holds for Taiwan funds. Lipper sees sales of Asia funds tied to U.S. market
Abstracts: Hong Kong's New World boosts its presence on mainland with sweeping property projects. China's new tax laws burnish New World stock
Abstracts: Experts say infrastructure stocks offer good returns, but not price stability. Indian stocks' recovery fuels cautious optimism
Abstracts: Analysts say Japan market requires long-term plan. Asian markets hope for a rebound from a glum '95, but concerns linger
Abstracts: Suharto son's Bimantara Group plans to seek listing. Salim Group's CEO says innovative solutions, not particular sectors, will be focus in future
Abstracts: In policy reverse, manila moves to stop peso fall. Decline of peso may help boost economy in long run. Vietnam may be taking the wrong path to tigerdom by following the Philippines
Abstracts: Banks seem in worse shape than expected. Purchase of Barings should help ING bolster its business in emerging markets
Abstracts: Hard times in the tank trade. International shipping meets in Amsterdam. Acids to alkalines - chemicals in demand
Abstracts: Diversification plugs gap in orderbook. Contract cements building commitment. Gravity's pull aids discharge
Abstracts: State funds support ageing fleet renewal. Divers face Grimm damage. Calm before recession
Abstracts: Range of fast freighter design grows. SHIP benefits owners. Feeder future looks bright
Abstracts: Flexibility is the way forward. Brighter future ahead? Full orderbooks follow restructuring process
Abstracts: More routes, more ships. Operating philosophy needs addressing. Roro survival needs further research
Abstracts: Hints of softness. Trends and projections. Moderation may not last
Abstracts: Kawasaki KLX300. 1996 Kawasaki ZX-7R
Abstracts: Quick ride. Bimota Mantra. Flying the 'bird
Abstracts: Southern comfort. Bologna bullet. Doohan for a day
Abstracts: Changes in energy expenditure resulting from altered body weight. Obesity
Abstracts: All eyes riveted on Microsoft. Netscape's gamble: can Web marketing alone beat Microsoft? Software branding: Lucent's hellish risk (Lucent Technologies' choice of brand names associated with hell for its software products; Inferno, Limbo, Styx and Dis software products)
Abstracts: Dow picks EDS for database program. Dow makes a long story short. MARKETING `MIRACLES': DUPONT REPLACES 1935 TAGLINE TO REFLECT CORPORATE CHANGE
Abstracts: Publisher profits driving up prices. Business ads up 9%. Bonus lead war of words: are such tips worthless or better than nothing?
Abstracts: Best places to live. Arty facts: how to do the scene at First Friday. 30 under 30
Abstracts: Toyota Avalon XLS. What's hot for 1996 and beyond. Detroit struts its stuff, Porsche pumps up the 993, VW preps a new beetle, Alfa folds its U.S. tent
Abstracts: Ford is finally focusing on number one. Pontiac 3800 Firebird Coupe. Pontiac 300GPX 335
Abstracts: Pontiac 300GPX 335. Prowling about town. 1998 Chevrolet Corvette convertible: hello, sunshine. Farewell, shake, rattle and roll!
Abstracts: Pontiac Firebird Formula WS6. Pontiac Firebird Ram Air vs. Ford Mustang Cobra. Pontiac 3800 Firebird Coupe
Abstracts: 1997 Cadillac Seville STS. 1998 Ford Escort ZX2. Ford GT90
Abstracts: Volvo 850 Turbo Sportswagon. In the land of the moonlit afternoon; our Editor-at-Large wrings out Volvo's new front-driver in Sweden's reindeer country
Abstracts: Student preferences for sales careers around the Pacific Rim. Guidelines for managing an international sales force
Abstracts: Time urgency: the construct and its measurement. The nomological and predictive validity of time urgency. Time urgency: conceptual and construct development
Abstracts: Almanac. part 3
Abstracts: Grey integer programming: an application to waste management planning under uncertainty. Logic applied to integer programming and integer programming applied to logic
Abstracts: Temporal call changes and prior experience affect graded signalling in the cricket frog. Patterns of advertisement call evolution in toads and chorus frogs
Abstracts: Interactions between the spatial and temporal clumping of food affect the intensity of aggression in Japanese medaka
Abstracts: Offspring quality and female choice in the guppy, Poecilia reticulata. Reversal of female preference after visual exposure to a predator in the guppy, Poecilia reticulata
Abstracts: Do female pigeons trade pair copulations for protection? Sex roles and sexual selection. Depletion determines sperm number in male zebra finches
Abstracts: An adaptive explanation for male-biased sex ratios in overwintering monarch butterflies. Effects of population size and food stress on fitness-related characters in the scarce heath, a rare butterfly in Western Europe
Abstracts: Gunboat diplomacy: Canada fires the first shots in what may become an all-out fish war with Europe. Reeling in a deal: an agreement in Brussels ends the fish war
Abstracts: The world at his feet. Profile in courage. Leaps of faith: despite the politics and the judging, Canadians will still challenge for skating's highest honor
Abstracts: Scaling another economic summit. Bad ballots, the RCMP and P.E.T. Who says Canada is dull?
Abstracts: The myth of our downsized cars. Oldsmobile Intrigue: getting serious about challenging the imports. What I don't want on my next car
Abstracts: Steeda Mustang GT. Two new monsters. Pumped-up Mustangs
Abstracts: Lingenfelter LS1 Corvette. Chevrolet Camaro Z28. Pontiac Grand Prix 300GPX
Abstracts: MB, L-P announce major asset sales. Weyco, L-P want to buy MB, Forex. Industry consolidation continues in Canada
Abstracts: Plum Creek, part II: plywood plants modernized. Adding value: Chilean mills get full value from forests. Plum Creek updates panel, lumber plants in Montana
Abstracts: Sawmill sees fast payback on optimization investments. Sawmill starts Argentine wood processing complex. Remodeled NZ sawmill focuses on value-added sales
Abstracts: Mainland investment firms draw spotlight in the city. Analyst goes out to pasture: Michael Green is retiring, moving to Tasmania
Abstracts: U.S. registers gains regionwide in battle against the piracy of intellectual property. part 2 U.S. leaves Asian nations off copyright-piracy list
Abstracts: WTO holdup draws applause from Chinese executives. Women's conference aims high, but funding may remain low. China renews its efforts to join WTO after averting trade war with the U.S
Abstracts: Washington, Seoul clash on North Korea approach. U.S. offer of peace talks to North Korea stands. South Korea ends tenure as World Bank borrower
Abstracts: Hong Kong financial secretary sees reserves growing substantially by 1997. Hong Kong takes last lap toward China in stride
Abstracts: Key footnote to reforms. Jiang may face difficulty from newly bold congress. NPC session seen helping Jiang consolidate power
Abstracts: Colony's China play stocks beckon amid mainland jitters. Beijing's 'brain gain' plan may yet come to fruition; more mainland Chinese educated abroad seek to join Hong Kong's work force
Abstracts: Thais rethink the notions of globalization and progress. Thai reforms fail to excite: but foreign-stake change lifts interest in banks
Abstracts: Most analysts, citing bad-debt problem, remain bearish on Japanese bank stocks. Experts say Tokyo stocks could benefit if U.S., Japan keep exchange rate stable
Abstracts: Hopewell succeeds in restructuring itself; but Hong Kong firm's move comes at a cost, analysts caution investors
Abstracts: Planned launch of 2 funds in Seoul rekindles interest in preferred shares. Bad news for Daewoo Group chairman could be good news for securities unit
Abstracts: Trends of the year. American Semillon
Abstracts: 30-minute main courses. part 13
Abstracts: Triceps: concentrated moves for sleek upper arms. Bolder shoulders: the first steps toward a shapely frame. Lean legs
Abstracts: A car is born: choosing to launch a global product in an emerging market is risky. But Fiat had good reason to do so with the Palio
Abstracts: Consolidation continues in Canada: Canadian insurers are targeting efficiency as the key to competition. Competitive challenges loom on the horizon
Abstracts: Shady agent, viatical mix creates recipe for fraud. Managed care, indemnity seek healthy coexistence. Insurers' profits decline but premiums advance
Abstracts: Will illustration model solve compliance woes? Plenty of fireworks. The sales police: agents with New York Life Insurance Co. may remember February 1994 as the month company Chairman Harry Hohn turned their world upside down
Abstracts: Winning the game. Banks face sales barriers as agents lobby states. Davids vs. Goliath
Abstracts: The origins of the problem. Bond portfolios beefed up in 1994. Under pressure, but under control
Abstracts: Don't take shortcuts in underwriting process; incomplete application information can cause major problems down the line for producers, carriers and clients
Abstracts: Read the fine print when selling guarantees. Bonus accident policy drives annuity sales. Insurers' new dilemma: money managers or spread managers?
Abstracts: Big health care networks invite government control. Managed care strategies creating doctor surplus. Gag rule bill heads for bipartisan approval
Abstracts: Define quality service so you can deliver it. Look before you leap onto new compensation plans. Discover target markets by knowing your customer
Abstracts: Train all employees to solve ethical dilemmas. Caught in the middle. Spouse program could aid agent retention problems
Abstracts: Cover-up sealed the fate of Barings. Fraud office goes into Barings. Barings dealer's 1m pounds sterling boast
Abstracts: Errors that let Leeson ruin bank. SFO launches inquiry amid witch-hunt. Barings 'knew of rogue deals.' (London officials of collapsed merchant bank Barings may have already known about ruinous trading activities of futures manager Nick Leeson)
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