Word: briefed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...succeeded Robert ("Just Right") Rubin three months ago. Summers' mantra--"A strong dollar is in the national interest of the United States"--was the same one repeated for six years by Rubin, a period during which the Dow rose a mountainous 7,000 points. In contrast, the as yet brief Summers era has seen the index drop some 900 points. But Summers says his focus is on "the fundamentals," such as creating a budget surplus, which he argues is best for both the economy and the markets...
...glum and endless and appears to have been designed by writer Kurt Luedtke (working from a Warren Adler novel) to show Dutch in the worst possible light. Apparently, though, Kay has a taste for sullen plodders. No other explanation is offered for her decision to enter into a brief, nervous affair with Dutch...
...brief phone interview from his home in Montana, the 59 year-old actor considered his lengthy and successful career. His first professional stage appearance, on Broadway at the age of 21, earned Fonda rave reviews and several critics' awards. Since then his credits have included the great anti-establishment "road film" Easy Rider (produced, co-scripted and starring Fonda, earning him an Oscar nomination for Best Original Screenplay) and 1997's Ulee's Gold (for which Fonda received a Golden Globe, the New York Film Critics Award and the Oscar nomination for Best Actor...
...brief, when running a campus network that connects 10,000+ computers, in several hundred buildings, with several hundred wiring closets in those buildings,with those 10,000+ computers running dozens of different operating systems and configurations, it is more difficult than one might think to keep the network running smoothly," Rick Osterberg, director of residential computing, wrote in an e-mail message...
...discussed their experiences teaching in the Bronx and rural North Carolina respectively and gave a brief sketch of how TFA works...