Word: chairman
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...Gene was a pioneer participant in the Masters tournament and held a special relationship with Augusta National," club chairman Hootie Johnson said. "We will miss him very much next year on the first tee. He was a great champion and ambassador for golf...
...Rubin make the boom, or did the boom make Bob Rubin? Rubin himself relentlessly defers the credit to his boss, President Clinton, to Fed chairman Alan Greenspan, to his staff and colleagues at the Treasury Department, to luck, and to a natural, cyclical economic high tide that he merely tried to keep as high as he could for as long as he could -- with considerable success. Wherever credit is due, the Clinton administration has presided over the greatest economic expansion in U.S. history; a 200 percent rise in the stock market; record lows in both unemployment and inflation...
...second spirit from the past was brought back by the Democrats themselves. Vice President Al Gore, seeking to bring order and a sense of direction to his sluggish campaign, named former congressman Tony Coelho, a once formidable Democratic strategist and fund-raiser, to be its general chairman. "Coelho is the person who brought the Democratic party into the modern era of world-class fund-raising by hitting powerful business interests," says TIME White House correspondent Karen Tumulty. "The appointment is surprising because it?s a double-edged sword" that could be used by Gore?s opponents. While Coelho?s modern...
That bill has been languishing in congressional limbo for months, a victim of squabbles over tobacco settlement money and help for the steel, oil and mining industries, among others. Not any more. "We really don't have time" to consider the Yugoslavia spending legislation separately, Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) said Tuesday. So by the end of next week, Clinton should get that $13 billion poke in the eye -- and Central Americans should get the help they need. Only six months late...
...best kind of deal is one that works out well for both sides," says Sumner Redstone, CEO of Viacom. AutoNation chairman H. Wayne Huizenga says, "You never know when you'll find yourself sitting across the negotiating table from that person again." In market terms: Forget the last fraction. Pigs get slaughtered...