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...Bush asserted, laying the groundwork for his central argument that tax cuts spur growth and serve as a cure-all for most economic ills. "I remember in the '80s, when people said we will have deficits forever," Bush said. "The next thing I know is that in the late '90s we begin to get into surplus. We've got to generate additional growth to get additional revenues...
...That was more the kind of mission relished by his late father Hafez Assad, the stern military commander who ruled Syria for 30 years until his death in 2000. Bashar's humble ambition was to leave politics to others in the clan and become a doctor. In the early '90s he went to London to study ophthalmology. There he courted his wife Asma, a young banker of Syrian origin who is fluent in four languages. When the gangly young man, now 37, rose to power three years ago, many hoped that an era of modernization, freedom, perhaps even peace...
...case; others include the former chief executive of Elf, several top company officials and a cast of other luminaries including a senior spy (although no one who is still politically active). They are charged with embezzling about $435 million from Elf during the late 1980s and early '90s. While proceedings are only half done, they have become politically explosive because witnesses are providing detail upon detail about seamy but officially sanctioned practices that, taken together, suggest something was very rotten at the heart of French state capitalism. Elf at the time was state-owned, and the most damning evidence...
Kaczynski inhabited a dual image in the public eye: some dismissed him as a paranoid schizophrenic while others hailed his writings as evidence of a brilliant, messianic anti-technology crusader. It is well known that he attended Harvard University—but absent from the mid-90s news was that Harvard may have created the Unabomber...
...decade ago, few would have guessed Embraer would be Bombardier's main competitor in the regional-jet business. But Embraer's 1994 privatization heralded Brazil's new push to be a global economic player. To exploit the late-'90s boom in worldwide regional-jet travel, Botelho committed Embraer to lighter, faster, farther-ranging and less expensive jets, which proved attractive to airlines even though they weren't--and still aren't--considered as technologically advanced as Bombardier's. Says Doug Abbey, executive director of the Regional Air Service Initiative, an industry advocacy group in Washington: "Embraer is the risk-taking...