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...with the public employees' union has been the Administration's months-long delay in deciding whether Texas Governor George W. Bush should be allowed to turn over the management of the state's cumbersome welfare system to private firms. Several companies, including Lockheed Martin and IBM, are eager to bid on what is expected to be a $2 billion multi-year contract. The unions fear not only the loss of thousands of government jobs in Texas but also the possibility that the idea could spread to other states. The day after the union snubbed the gala last week, the Clinton...
...member who is working to wrest control of the group from 56-year-old president Marion Hammer and executive vice president, Wayne LaPierre. Knox and his followers blame Hammer and LaPierre for the lobby's huge drop in membership and a massive $56 million debt. If successful in his bid for control, Knox and his followers, labeled by LaPierre as "a band of militia gun devotees," could drastically change the face of the group by opposing such things as the prohibition on the manufacture of armor-piercing bullets and mandatory child-safety locks on handguns...
...JOSE: Oracle chairman Larry Ellison has dropped plans to buy Apple. The billionaire businessman began forming an investment group a month ago to consider an exploratory bid for the company while trying to scare away other potential suitors such as Saudi Prince Al-Walid bin Talal, a nephew of King Fahd who had begun buying up Apple shares. Apple stock finished down 11/16 on the news to close at $17. Industry insiders said Ellison's success in turning Oracle into a $4 billion software powerhouse, whose chief customers were corporations, would not translate to reviving Apple, whose shrinking band...
...number of photography awards TIME has won this year. At the Missouri School of Journalism's Picture of the Year competition, Bentley took four top awards in the campaign category--which he has won every time since its inception in 1984--for photos taken during Bob Dole's presidential bid. Liss won first place for his feature on community policing and his cover photo and essay on a working mom. Diana Walker received three first-place honors from the White House News Photographers Association for her behind-the-scenes glimpses of the Clinton campaign and her private look...
...success of unhappy stories by the largely or completely unknown is a new and, to many, puzzling phenomenon. Publishers aren't worrying much about why such stuff sells so well; they're too busy trying to acquire and peddle more of it. A ferocious bidding war erupted over the manuscript of a 98-year-old Kansas grandmother that tells of her harsh life with an alcoholic husband; the eventual winning bid topped $1 million...