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...Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole, House Speaker Newt Gingrich and House Majority Leader Dick Armey will hold a budget summit at the White House Friday. Talks got back on track after White House Chief of Staff Leon Panetta met Thursday with Sen. Pete Domenici and Rep. John Kasich, the chairmen of the Senate and House Banking Committees. House Republicans have said that they will not pass a continuing resolution to end the partial federal shutdown until the budget deal is completed...
After just six months on the job, Warner Music Group chief Michael Fuchs was ousted by Time Warner chairman Gerald Levin. Warner Bros. co-chairmen Robert Daly and Terry Semel will take control of the record company. And on the publishing side, both TIME and SPORTS ILLUSTRATED got new managing editors: Walter Isaacson for TIME and Bill Colson for SI. TIME managing editor Jim Gaines will become corporate editor...
...today, was in the U.S. delegation. The former Governor of Minnesota and perennial presidential hopeful recalls the thrill on June 21 as a plenary session in the city's Opera House received a motion to sign the charter: "Nobody spoke. Somebody said, 'Let's vote.' So we did. The chairmen began to stand, and we suddenly realized that everybody was standing, and we broke into applause...
...Hampshire has 259 towns and wards; Dole has two volunteer co-chairmen in almost all of them already. "Dole had only 20 regional chairmen statewide in '88," says Carney. "We'll have 500 people. Those are vested folks. They see their own reputations on the line, so they work hard." To goad their efforts, each chairman has been given a vote goal. Over the next seven months, their performance will be measured periodically and made known to their colleagues. "Politics is the state sport," Carney explains, "so competition is a powerful incentive...
...states. But even its proponents admit that they have only about 185 solid Republican votes and 35 Democratic votes for the measure--70 short of the 290 needed to amend the Constitution. According to the Term Limits Legal Institute, approximately 35 of the G.O.P. holdouts--including nine committee chairmen--have spent an average of 14 years in Congress already. Of those, 13 voted for a 1989 pay raise, bounced an average of 43 checks each in the House banking scandal, and will receive an average pension of $1.7 million. (The records of the veteran Democrats who oppose McCollum's measure...