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What happened? To House Speaker Thomas Foley, the answer was simple: Americans love a tax cut -- any kind of tax cut -- and the legislators reflected that feeling. Democrats contended, correctly, that 80% of the benefits from the capital-gains slash would go to people making more than $100,000 a year, 60% to those with incomes over $200,000. No matter, says Foley. Tell an ordinary taxpayer that he will reap $10 from a measure that will save the likes of Donald Trump an average of $25,000 a year, and the taxpayer will reply, "Fine. Give...
Although most Governors agreed that more federal spending on schools is not the answer to their problems, they did ask that Bush help them hack through the thicket of regulations that accompany existing federal education grants. Bush agreed, in the words of Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton, to "swap red tape for results" in disbursing federal money. Those funds now come encumbered by rules that, for example, prevent night classes of adults from using computers bought for day classes of handicapped students...
...forestall a growing willingness to recognize his rule. Equally important, a major Khmer Rouge victory would destroy any lingering thoughts Sihanouk might entertain about cutting a deal with Hun Sen. Sadly, it seems more bloodletting will be needed to convince the various factions that political compromise is the only answer. Until then, Cambodia's long nightmare will...
...answer at this point is disappointing, according to TIME interviews with dozens of executives and consultants involved in such takeovers. Many, if not most, foreign buyers are so far failing to meet the glowing expectations they set for their U.S. acquisitions. In many cases, struggling U.S. subsidiaries are being kept alive by financial transfusions from parent companies overseas...
Such conflicts crop up in some of the most basic rituals of working life. "If an American wants an answer, he'll pick up the phone," says Kai Lindholst, a managing partner of Egon Zehnder, an international consulting firm. "A European will write a memo. The phone call will seem overly aggressive and pushy to the European manager, but the American needs to convey a greater sense of urgency because competition in the U.S. is so tough...