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...Clinton says he's creating jobs, but he has no businessmen around him," Sahl said. "No one but poets, philosophers and beekeepers, as the saying goes...
...seen how much Clinton will reap politically for his team's efforts at succoring Big Business. Since his Inauguration, the Democratic Party has received record amounts of "soft money" donations, largely from corporate givers -- some of whom, perhaps not coincidentally, have accompanied Brown on his jaunts. Yet businessmen and -women say they remain uneasy with an Administration that seems to understand their needs on the road but is all too willing to criticize -- or tax -- them in order to pursue domestic initiatives. Complains Bruce Josten, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce senior vice president for policy: "One day the President...
...choosing Zedillo, Mexicans voted for stability. They had been badly frightened by a year of upheaval that began with the armed rebellion in Chiapas led by angry peasants and included political assassination and kidnappings of wealthy businessmen. Such fears helped the party in power, which offered security and familiarity even to the multitudes who have yet to share the fruits of economic reform. Federico Reyes Heroles, director of the magazine Este Pais, thinks that the split of just over half the votes for Zedillo and slightly less than half for the opposition "is a faithful picture of what the country...
...wait! There on the tarmac stood the rumpled figure of Ralph Roberts, 74, and his natty son Brian, 35, who controlled the Comcast cable-TV company and were partners with Diller in QVC. Known as straight-arrow businessmen in a rough-and-tumble industry, the Robertses hated the merger with CBS and arrived at the airport with a letter that contained shattering news for Diller: to bust up the deal that had electrified Wall Street when it was announced last month, Comcast was offering $2.2 billion, or $44 a share, for the 84% of QVC stock that...
Nope. The whites do fall apart, but the black politicians, thugs and businessmen they encounter are just as inventively corrupt as any alderman back in Indiana. At one point a wily middleman recommends that Boone employ a seer. Are his visions guaranteed to be accurate? Errors do occur, it is admitted. "What if a devil or a witch or an angry ancestor interferes with the divination process for its own purposes, maybe to mislead the client with a false message?" What if, indeed? The author's fizz of comic energy is as wild and scornful as Richard Condon's, back...