Word: arounders
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that a Capitol Hill Medicare event would not distract from the First Lady's photo op at the National Archives. He went to New York to start raising $125 million for his presidential library. Not much in that for Al, especially at a time when Hillary was also scavenging around New York, looking for $20 million that might otherwise go Gore's way. Things have reached the point where Tipper Gore, asked by Larry King whether she would be campaigning for Hillary in New York, could do no more than be emphatically noncommittal...
...Procurement from Acme Chemicals wants to score a thousand pounds of polypropylene. In the old days, he'd have his broker pals ring up suppliers around the world until they found the best deal. Calls: 30 or 40, many international. Transaction time: one week. Cost: hundreds or thousands of dollars...
...flexible workforce of the 1990s, though, temps tend to stick around longer and end up blending right in, doing everything from developing complex computer software to editing magazines. Since they often stay in one (sometimes high-level) position for the long haul, they've earned the name "permatemps." The deal is supposed to benefit both parties; the workers aren't tied to the job, and the company doesn't shell out for costly benefits. But many temps feel like second-class corporate citizens, denied company perks like health insurance...
...travel team often take private instruction, at $70 an hour or more, or attend specialized summer sports camps and clinics, where attendance is booming. The governing body of Little League baseball, for example, has seen attendance more than double, to 2,900 kids, at its five summer-camp locations around the country. Kids' athletics today is not a pursuit for dilettantes--even among 13-year-olds, who used to be dilettantes by nature...
...Serbia?s welfare ahead of the political pain they?d feel from letting him retire unpunished." Would Milosevic, addicted to power, ever take the back way out? "He?d be tempted," says Dowell. "And a standing offer would make those close to him wonder how long he?d be around. They?d have to think about cutting their own deals." Right now, with Milosevic?s back (hopefully) against the wall, U.S. officials are in no mood to give any ground. After all, he?s the villain who got them into this mess. But if he?d agree to get them...