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...BREAK The longtime businessman met company founders Matthew and Alison Freeman-Gleason in 1996. At the time, they had a 12,000-sq.-ft. showroom in downtown Seattle. Taylor, who predicted that home building was going green, jumped on board in 2000 to help expand their vision...
...interrupted by the arrival of former Virginia governor Mark Warner, clad in a blue shirt and orange tie. As Warner’s campaign manager in 2001, Jarding had helped the Democratic businessman win in a predominantly conservative state...
...Beijing. Schumer and Graham are co-sponsoring a bill - now delayed until the fall - that threatens to slap a 27.5% tariff on Chinese imports to the U.S. unless Beijing allows the Chinese currency to rise sharply, a move the senators believe would help cut America's trade deficit. Chinese businessman Liu Weiping attended a talk given by the senators to a group of students that included members of his executive M.B.A. class at Tsinghua University. Liu, a tech entrepreneur who has visited the U.S. several times and admires much about it, was appalled. Coburn, he claims, talked of himself...
...midway through his second, nonconsecutive term as President of the Dominican Republic, has the vision thing. When developers proposed the country's first modern port during his first term, "he got it right away--'We can be the Singapore of the Caribbean'--his words," recalls Dominican businessman Samuel A. Conde, who is looking to set up a regional logistics center...
...January by championing New Orleans as a "chocolate city" - a comment that he admits "soured" his rapport with white voters who got him elected four years ago. Now, however, he?s finding electoral solace in the city?s African-American community - and the reason is simple, says black businessman and Democratic Party activist Kenneth Garrett Sr. "He?s the captain that stayed with the sinking ship...