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They're buying better cuts of meat, says the butcher, but driving an extra 100 miles to get a better car deal; saving money on toilet paper at Wal-Mart--"I never did that in the '80s," says a local businessman--so they have extra to spend on a better breed of golf club. The deli owner was confident enough to start her own business, but is worried enough that she doesn't yet dare raise the price of a liverwurst above $3.50. The local bankers see people with as much as $70,000 in charge-card debt, which could...
...film, but he comes from a family of 11, and he claims his former agent kept part of the cash. Unable to read or write, the onetime child star does not want to return to buffing shoes. But if Hollywood has forgotten Raju, not everyone else has. French businessman Gerard Gheleyns has taken Raju under his wing and is helping find him treatment for his stunted growth. As for Raju, he's almost as stoic as the Buddha. "The world is full of struggling actors," he says. "I could become one of them, but then I may not. I have...
...raised at that lunch from Huang and his wife Jane; James Riady, who was Huang's boss at Lippo; Maria Hsia, who would later co-chair the infamous 1996 Buddhist-temple fund raiser attended by Al Gore; and several others. Daschle was not alone in recommending Huang: the businessman was also tipped for a job in a recently released 1992 Democratic National Committee memo...
...months snapshots of a Democratic White House desperately grubbing for campaign dollars have focused on Asian Americans with strong business ties to their native lands. Now Republicans tell Time the G.O.P. has profited from an Asian money connection as well. Twice in two years Hong Kong businessman Ambrous Tung Young bailed out the party at crucial moments: first freeing up as much as $2 million in the final days before the G.O.P.'s 1994 sweep of Congress; then eating $500,000 in bad debts, rescuing Republicans in the last weeks of the 1996 contest. The conduit for the money...
...Chinese businessman came to prop up the G.O.P. is a story that began in 1993, right after Bill Clinton's election. Barbour had just taken over as G.O.P. chairman and created a think tank to generate new ideas. He called his group the National Policy Forum, and although its operations were two blocks and a few legal documents removed from Republican headquarters, it was just an extension of the party. Barbour was chairman of the forum; G.O.P. officials set its $4 million annual budget and coordinated fund raising. The forum circulated 600,000 questionnaires to identify the hot-button issues...