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Certainly, Zhu, a well-paid interior decorator, lives it up as much as any self-respecting Chinese businessman. She's juggling two lovers at the moment, lavishing them with designer Italian suits, fancy Cantonese meals and portable CD players. Usually she keeps them hooked with such tokens, but occasionally she'll pay straight cash for a night of pleasure. "I know my husband does the same thing when he's traveling on business," she says...
Saving American citizens money is a worthwhile motive. Yet does businessman Bush miss the point? The goal of controls on carbon dioxide emissions is to decrease the amount of carbon dioxide released. As the cost of something increases, the demand for that same good decreases. As electricity becomes more expensive we will shift sources of power, incurring costs but also stopping climate change, the melting of the polar ice caps...
...main ingredient in acid rain--but allowed the plants to swap credits. And Houston-based Enron, an energy trader whose chairman, Ken Lay, was a prominent W. campaign adviser, stands to be a huge player in any such market. So if it's good for business, Bush the ex-businessman won't need that big a push...
...money for K-12 testmakers, a market currently dominated by textbook publishers but one that ETS is poised to join. After a rough decade of losses caused by a heavy investment in computer-based exams, ETS last year--for the first time in its history--hired a businessman, not an educator, to run the company. And looking to seize a large chunk of the pre-college testing market, it launched a for-profit subsidiary, ETS K-12 Works. ETS president Kurt Landgraf, former CEO of DuPont Pharmaceuticals, hopes to double ETS's overall revenues within five years, to more than...
Hugh's work for Vignali was of longer duration, beginning when the drug dealer's father Horacio asked Rodham to work on the clemency application. Rodham, a former public defender in Florida, was reluctant at first, but finally agreed. The elder Vignali, a wealthy Los Angeles businessman, had some sense of politics. He contributed generously to politicians in both parties, beginning in earnest in 1994 shortly before his son was to stand trial on conspiracy and cocaine-distribution charges. Prosecutors said the son deserved no quarter and expressed no remorse. Carlos was a key financier of a drug ring that...