Word: chicago
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Howard Hughes to fail to make the Builders and Titans list is like Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls losing out to the Harlem Globetrotters. The Bulls are the best in the world at what they do, as was Hughes, and the Globetrotters are the best at playing crazy, as was Hughes. CURTIS J. PHILLIPS Fort McMurray, Alta...
...Republican, not even Ken Starr, cut through the President's mortar as efficiently as David Schippers, a Democrat hired by Hyde as majority counsel. In an angry, sarcastic and merciless presentation delivered in a penetrating Chicago twang, Schippers drilled holes in Clinton's words, deeds and character, arguing that the President had lied repeatedly under oath, obstructed justice by helping Lewinsky get a job and encouraged everyone around him to do the same. "He lied to the people, he lied to his Cabinet, he lied to his top aides, and now he's lied under oath to the Congress...
...think until some decisions have been made, that thirst is not going to be satisfied," said Susan J. Oliver '78, president of the Radcliffe Club of Chicago...
...include enough people." While it's good that low-income households are benefiting from tax breaks, Congress has failed to consider that married cops and schoolteachers, in households where both spouses work, can now jointly earn $100,000 a year. "But in big cities like New York or Chicago, that hardly makes them rich," says Kadlec...
...when it comes to jobs, the bad news may outweigh the good. Challenger, Gray and Christmas, a Chicago-based outplacement firm, estimates that 1998 may set the decade's record for layoffs. It reported that U.S. firms eliminated 574,629 jobs this year--32% more than in 1997 and within reach of the 1993 high of 615,185. Some economists argue that job gains will continue to offset job losses. But economic turmoil in Asia and Latin America may make things worse...