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...understand what I'm trying to say?" demands John Francis Welch Jr. The embattled chairman of General Electric puts an arm around a visitor's shoulders and spreads out an improbable set of papers. One shows that GE, with 222,000 employees in 100 countries, has had only three criminal convictions in the 13 years that Welch has run the company. Another points out that the U.S. Justice Department, which has been hounding GE lately, has had 140 of its employees prosecuted for corruption or other on-the-job offenses just since 1992. Yet another shows that GE is headed...
...least some members of the ramidus clan were about 4 ft. tall, but that doesn't establish what the range in height was. In some African apes, males are considerably bigger than females, as they were in Lucy's species as well. Says White: "We do know the arm bones come from an individual that was larger than Lucy, but we don't know if it was male or female...
Such feelings seemed to matter little to the U.S. soldiers, who were preoccupied with the open-arm reception coming from the poor. "They know we're here to help," said Specialist Hugh Sullivan, manning his machine gun from the top of a humvee. In fact, he added ruefully, "they think we're here to solve all their problems...
...style is hard to mistake. After a flirtation with harder-edged coverage a few years ago, the show has dropped almost all pretense of being anything but an arm of the Hollywood publicity machine. It fills the air time with goggle-eyed "behind-the-scenes" visits to Hollywood sets, fawning interviews with stars, and other fluff indistinguishable from advertising. Sometimes it is advertising. An "exclusive first look" at a new movie on E.T. (last week's story on the new Schwarzenegger comedy Junior, for instance) often turns out to be nothing but the studio-made trailer for the film...
...START II agreement reached last year. Clinton also boosted his Russian aid pledge to $1 billion. Other notable deals: U.S. intelligence agencies will now help their counterparts in Russia in tracking down plutonium smugglers, and Clinton managed to convince the burly Russian leader to turn down any future arm-sales contracts with Iran. That final deal was a notable coup, says TIME State Department correspondent J.F.O. McAllister...