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After failing to get the 1980 Republican presidential nomination, Connally went home to make a Texas-size fortune. Starting with about $10 million, he and Barnes built a real estate empire worth an estimated $300 million by 1983. But the oil bust sent the value of the partners' holdings into a free fall. Over the past year Connally tried to prop up the business by selling personal assets, including 126 prized Thoroughbreds and quarter horses that he reluctantly auctioned off for nearly...
...bayous of the South. Hall would get to know the locals and start buying alligator hides from traders; at one point, he operated a tanning factory for more than a year. "The big traders would bring their skins to me in 18-wheel trucks," says Hall, "and we'd bust them on the spot. I know the real Crocodile Dundees, and I've arrested about half of them...
...Director of the Institute of Politics (IOP) is sitting behind his desk on a rainy July day, surrounded by boxes that litter his freshly vacuumed office floor. A small bust of Abraham Lincoln and a picture of Dick, as his friends call him, at the Great Wall of China stand out amongst the debris. Worn books on politics such as "All the President's Men," "The Final Days," "The Brethren," and works by Garry Wills and William Safire stare out from the wall behind...
...generation of workers graduating from college today may find themselves in a better position. They belong to the "baby-bust" generation, and their small numbers, says Harvard Economist David Bloom, will force employers to be creative in searching for labor. Child-care arrangements, he says, will be the "fringe benefits of the 1990s." The economics of the situation, if nothing else, will provoke a change in the attitude of business, just as the politics of the situation is changing the attitude of government. In order to attract the necessary women -- and men -- employers are going to have to help them...
Sure did, while the ramble lasted. Then the national enthusiasm for folk music faded to its customary polite murmur. Rush was still fairly successful, but that was fairly disastrous in the platinum-or-bust pop-music world. Punk was big; should he dye his hair purple and wear Spandex? Or mess around with country rock? A couple of years before, he had bought a shaggy, overgrown 600-acre farm in the southern part of New Hampshire, his home state. He had a good view of Mount Monadnock and enough money to hide out for a year. As the fat years...