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...last time we were in a place even roughly comparable was the late 1980s, the decade that birthed LBOs, so called because firms got a lot of their buying power from debt, or leverage--particularly high-yield, risky junk bonds. Raiders feasted on bloated conglomerates such as Beatrice, buying them up, busting them apart and reselling at a profit--until the economy slipped into recession. The ensuing bankruptcies killed off the junk-bond market, and the deals dried up. The late 1990s saw a tech-driven LBO resurgence, but that too ended with the 2000 bubble burst...
...unresolved litigation has unnerved investors and doomed attempts to raise money through the public-bond sale that would provide the expected $3 billion. Alternatively, the institute tried to float bond anticipation notes to buyers who would get refunds from the eventual sales of the bonds. But because of the ongoing lawsuit, there were few takers in the public market even for those. Half a dozen private foundations bought $14 million of the notes. And the institute recently sold an additional $30 million to $35 million of them. But when it began using the money to fund fellowships at state research...
...went to President George W. Bush after her summer vacation to put the viceroy on a shorter leash. She knew that the President exercised with Bremer when he visited Washington, appreciated his strong Catholic faith and treated him like a Cabinet member. But she drew on her even deeper bond with the President. She soft-pedaled her views of Bremer's record so as not to make it personal and got herself put in charge of Iraq policy...
...influence on Jimmy appears to have outweighed the privileges that came with being his son. McCain is rock-star famous, and his wife Cindy came to the marriage with money as the daughter of a Budweiser distributor. While others have signed up for duty--the sons of Senator Kit Bond of Missouri and Tim Johnson of South Dakota have served combat missions in Iraq--it is nonetheless unusual for children with their background to enlist. By comparison, at least 32 congressional family members were found to be lobbyists, in a recent study by Public Citizen's Congress Watch...
FIDEL AND RAUL CASTRO Talk about a brotherly bond: after being imprisoned and exiled together, they led Cuba's revolution. In 1959, Fidel rewarded his loyal little bro, naming him Defense Minister...