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Clinton and Bush Administration officials now admit they knew about Conoco's prospective $1 billion oil contract with Iran. President Clinton nixed the deal by executive order this week. The Houston-based oil firm said today in Senate testimony that it was never told to halt negotiations with Tehran to develop offshore oil fields, despite State Department concerns about Iran's terrorist activities. Senate Banking Committee chairman Alfonse D'Amato (R-N.Y.), who held a hearing on the matter today, said that State Department officials misled the company: "The Clinton and Bush Administrations knew and did nothing," D'Amato...
...much to determine which G.O.P. hopefuls will survive to compete in the 1996 campaign. Like his counterparts in the race, Alexander calls fund raising "the 1995 primary" and says he needs to raise $20 million by the end of this year. Privately, fund raisers in his camp (and others') admit the real target is closer to $30 million. To pull it off, Alexander will attend 296 fund-raising events this year--a daunting schedule that is designed to raise, as Alexander's finance chairman Ted Welch coolly puts it, "a mil every 10 days." To the men who yearn...
...your losses. He never went through a bear market. He was lacking that bit in the learning curve when you say, 'I've made a mistake. I've got to get out of here.' He didn't have the courage-or the experience-to go to the boss and admit failure and ask how to get out of it." She adds: "These kids are just learning to walk, and suddenly they are put in charge of too much. They are still in nappies. They don't know what they don't know...
Griswold went "into the trenches" to lobby thefaculty "one by one" over a period of three yearsbefore proposing to admit women before theCorporation, Hope said...
...much like their own lives. Optimistic Levy says that the depiction of doctors can be too negative. His professors tell him that there's not as much in-house fighting as the show suggests. "At the end of the day it's more likely that doctors admit their mistakes honestly than that they point fingers," Levy says. "Doctors pitted against each other isn't how it goes." He hopes...