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...Purvis, "not just for one or two projects, but leaned on in almost every facet" of their lives. As deputy in the counsel's office, he was among those who attracted much of the criticism in the early days of the Administration over insufficiently vetting nominees and the abrupt firing of seven members of the travel office. He had become a target of Wall Street Journal editorials about the "legal cronies from Little Rock," but he had laughed it off, calling it, says a colleague, "b.s. stuff." He was the one, Clinton recalled, who bucked up others, always the protector...
...Three's abrupt acceleration has caught Japanese carmakers off guard. "The Japanese never expected that Detroit would get better," contends Maryann Keller, an industry analyst with the firm Furman Selz in New York City. But with the yen now trading around a robust 105 to the U.S. dollar, Japan has been forced to price its cars out of the reach of many American shoppers. "At the yen level we are facing right now, it is difficult for some of our Japanese-made models to be competitive in the U.S.," a Toyota executive says. Some Western observers suspect they are witnessing...
...answer to Powell's concern that an abrupt shift will weaken the military, opponents answer that the military has undergone rapid shifts in the past, such as when it was integrated in 1948, an action which made the rise of Colin L. Powell possible...
...White House was taken aback by charges of cronyism after the abrupt dismissal of its seven-member travel staff, which arranges travel for government officials and receives payment from news organizations for the same service. Accusing the longtime staffers of "gross mismanagement," the Administration insisted its action was not a response to complaints by Hollywood producer Harry Thomason, an intimate of the Clintons who has friends in the charter-airplane business. Facing an uproar when a cousin of the President was named to head an interim operation, while an Arkansas travel agency -- whose owner contributed to the Clinton campaign...
...there was a screen influence, Prince says, it was Dennis Potter's The Singing Detective, a TV miniseries that hopscotched among layers of reality and expected audiences to get their bearings gradually, by osmosis. Says Prince: "The way the numbers are parsed into Kiss is unique. They are abrupt, fragmented. The scenic design allows you to hallucinate in a fraction of a second. We change venue without lifting, lowering, moving or revealing anything. There is no waiting. It is two realities...