Word: bidness
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...nailing down that fact, Maraniss may have done his most awe-inspiring piece of reporting. The author was able to get Clinton's former Chief of Staff and chief protector, Betsey Wright, to tell him on-the-record about a conversation they had when he was mulling a bid for the presidency...
...test case for federal contracting programs that give advantages to businesses owned by women and minorities. Under a minority-preference program of the Department of Transportation, white-owned Adarand Constructors of Colorado Springs, Colorado, was bypassed for a federal job building highway guard rails, despite having submitted a lower bid than the winner--Gonzales Construction. Adarand sued. ``What is prejudice?'' asks Adarand manager Randy Pech. ``It's when government makes a decision based on something that doesn't matter, like race or gender.'' In the tangle of its earlier rulings on affirmative action, the Supreme Court has required states...
...Arrest warrants have been issued for more than 100 people in connection with the collapses, and dozens of financiers are believed to have fled the country. President Rafael Caldera has charged that the banking system has been systematically looted by ``a den of thieves.'' The debacle makes a strong bid to be, in the words of Francisco Faraco, a respected financial analyst in Caracas, ``the world's biggest financial crisis of the 20th century...
...from the last time Dole began a presidential bid, in 1987, with a stark, conventional announcement from his hometown of Russell, Kansas. With 54 weeks to go before the New Hampshire primary, the Republican contest for President is lifting off quickly--and shedding its excess baggage almost as fast. Last week it was Jack Kemp's turn. The man who helped define Reaganism, the humane champion of free enterprise, decided not to run. ``Many in the party,'' he told recently, ``have moved further to the right than I feel comfortable with. What I believe in--that we should include everyone...
According to consultants who have studied the D.C. government, Barry increased his base of supporters in the 1980s by expanding government jobs by the thousands and awarding contracts on a no-bid basis. By the time his third term ended with an arrest for cocaine possession, the city was barreling toward financial disaster. When Sharon Pratt Kelly took over in 1991, she inherited a $300 million deficit, and the city had a higher per-capita expenditure than any other American city--$9,516. She did little to improve the situation...