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Government officials and businesses are looking for ways to reuse waste water. With the aid of advanced technology, even highly contaminated water can be made drinkable again. Alcoa has just begun to market a new claylike material called Sorbplus that helps clean water by adsorbing toxic materials...
...Treasury Secretary Nicholas Brady nonetheless wanted Bush to name a top deputy whose management skills would signal that the new Administration & is serious about budget cutting. Not many candidates wanted to play second fiddle. Norman Augustine, chief executive officer of Martin Marietta, and Paul O'Neill, CEO of Alcoa, turned down the deputy's job. Republican Senator Pete Wilson of California began whooping it up for Rand Corp. president Donald Rice, whose many qualifications include the fact that he is a close friend and golfing partner of the most influential defense expert in Congress, Democrat Sam Nunn. Rice, who flew...
...markets might come from Bush's choice of a Defense Secretary, since he must decide whether he wants a skilled politician or a disciplined manager. Among the finalists: former Texas Senator John Tower, who has strong ties to defense contractors, and Paul O'Neill, chief executive of Alcoa and a former OMB deputy...
...Government, Greenspan has kept a high profile. In 1985 he appeared in television commercials and newspaper and magazine ads as a pitchman for Apple's IIc computer. He makes about 20 speeches a year (his & standard fee: $22,000) and sits on the boards of six corporations, including Alcoa, Mobil and Capital Cities/ABC...
...especially his open wartime love affair with Pamela Churchill, the British Prime Minister's daughter-in-law--matters the docudrama deliberately overlooked. Using declassified FBI files, Sperber demonstrates abuses by that agency, the State Department and its Passport Bureau to harass Murrow and suggests their files were leaked to Alcoa, which then withdrew sponsorship of Murrow's trademark documentary series See It Now. Although generally a plodding stylist, Sperber delivers absorbing passages on Murrow's major confrontations--in Britain, with McCarthy, and finally with then CBS Chairman William Paley, who embraced Murrow for decades but ultimately took away his weekly...