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United Kingdom manufacturing industry should be examined in terms of its structural aspects, and links between scientific knowledge and technology use in industry. The performance of industry is important to remedy the United Kingdom trade deficit, thus providing a boost to the rest of the economy. A narrow focus on productivity and on the role of the market in solving economic problems can obscure the need for infrastructure, training and education, and the importance of a science base in the United Kingdom.

The European Venture Capital Association has produced a policy White Paper stressing the importance of promoting entrepreneurship. The EU Single Market Programme also needs to be completed, according to the 'Boosting Europe's Growing Companies - Europe Private Equity White Paper'. Small expanding companies are the key to job creation.

The new Series-1996 $100 notes issued by the Federal Reserve since Mar 1996 represent a complete design change which should deter counterfeiting. To prevent inconveniencing the public, older $100 bills will continue as legal tender until deposit at Federal Reserve Banks. Statistics are included for $100 notes in circulation in the US and internationally.

Disbursements so far from the 350 million pounds sterling Morgan Grenfell Equity Partners fund have reached 150 million pounds sterling following the completion of a $125 million buyout of Deloro Stellite from Thermadyne Holdings Corp and a 33 million pounds sterling management buy-in of Donside Paper from UK Paper Group. With the latter deal, Morgan Grenfell Development Capital is returning to the paper sector, where it was very successful with the Inveresk buyout. It plans to adopt a buy and build approach with Deloro Stellite, which designs, manufactures and distributes wear-resistant components and metallurgical powders.

European buyout firm CVC Capital Partners has acquired Smurfit Condat, a paperboard manufacturer, from the Jefferson Smurfit Corp.

This first stage of negotiations is crucial, since it will define what is on the agenda for the talks that follow. So far, only one proposal is on the table, [...]

Industrial Production: 1989 Developments and Historical Revision The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System has completed a revision of its index of industrial production. The index has been [...]

Britain has put forward a number of suggestions for improving on the latest proposal for an EU-wide code governing company takeovers, currently being debated by the EU Council of Ministers' [...]

The paradox of sustainable development policy is that the three pillars (environmental, economic and social) need to be developed in a "balanced" way. In short, though European decision-makers decided a [...]

Community patent. At their meeting on February 26, the Committee of Permanent Representatives to the EU (COREPER) made some progress on the Community patent. Germany, which had always opposed the [...]

Council treads cautiously. The idea of a "safe third country" was developed in the early 1990s in order to speed up asylum procedures and limit secondary movements. Austria, supported by [...]

May Summit on horizon. EU diplomats report that Foreign Ministers held a brief but not ill-timed "tour de table" on EU-Russia relations in view of the May 31 Summit, to [...]

The report, adopted on March 5, assesses how three EU Directives (90/364, 90/365 and 93/96) intended to copper-fasten the right of residence have been implemented. These Directives concern EU citizens [...]

The defence budget for the EU as a whole is less than half of the United States': Euro 160 billion vs US 390 billion. The US research investment budget is [...]

European Regional Policy Commissioner Michel Barnier has said on several occasions - most recently when presenting the Second Progress Report on Economic and Social Cohesion at the end of January [...]

Debate on three issues will be predominantly political. - Preparation of the March 20-21 Summit and assessment of progress implementing the EU's sustainable development strategy: the Ministers are expected to [...]

Monetary Policy Report to the Congress Report submitted to the Congress on July 20, 1989, pursuant to the Full Employment and Balanced Growth Act of 1978.(1) MONETARY POLICY AND THE [...]

Priced Services, 1988 and 1989 Since 1981, under the mandate of the Monetary Control Act of 1980, the Federal Reserve has been charging fees for the services it provides to [...]

The International Gold Standard and U.S. Monetary Policy from World War I to the New Deal Before the First World War, most of the world, including the United States, Great [...]

The process by which Dolly the genetic replica of an adult sheep, was created, was published in a scientific paper by researchers associated with the venture-backed PPL Therapeutics PLC. This led scientists, legislators and the public to consider the proper applications and limits for such technology. Some believe it will lead to new sorts of genomics companies being formed and the new technology could speed up research-heard creation by as much as 18 months.

Open-space meeting is an unconventional type of meeting because it does not require the setting of an agenda before the event. Instead, participants from every level of an organization sit in a circle and decide during the meeting what pressing issues need to be discussed. Individuals who feel that a particular issue should be tackled at the meeting simply have to write it on paper and set a time and place where other people who are also interested in the suggested topic can meet. Open-space meetings, which usually last from one to three days, encourage participants to transfer from one discussion group to another if they feel that they are not learning anything from a particular session. The meeting staff then makes a list of suggestions, ideas and issues discussed during the event. Copies are distributed to attendants for action and follow-up. Suggestions for conducting open-space meetings are discussed.

Natural Fibers and Food Proteins in Texas Since the early days of the Texas frontier, agricultural production has been both a source of livelihood for the state's rural population and [...]