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...about 160 miles northeast of Moscow to Yaroslavl, an industrial city known as part of the "golden ring" of ancient fortified towns that formed the historic heart of Russia. Before the 10-hour tour, Yeltsin's campaign handlers described Yaroslavl as "one of the nation's most stable" places, code for an area presumed sympathetic to Yeltsin. Yaroslavl was the first town outside the capital that he visited after the unsuccessful 1993 rebellion failed to dislodge him from the Kremlin. Back then, conditions in the city were improving after decades of shortages, but residents still remembered taking the four-hour...
Trading has been brisk in Boris Yeltsin futures at the Russian stock market in downtown Moscow. Every day at 4:36 p.m., youthful brokers with code names like "Father," "Moon" and "Winter" buy and sell contracts pegged to whatever percentage of the vote they believe the Russian President will receive on election day. Since item Ye-1606-V began trading April 22, Yeltsin's projected total, registered in flashing orange lights on a big digital board, has jumped 10 points, to around 28.50--about equal to the quote for the Communist candidate, Gennadi Zyuganov. These speculators may care more about...
While Clinton will have warm words for the saints, earlier this year business leaders were hearing something else from Secretary of Labor Robert Reich. Until the other Bob, Treasury Secretary Rubin, maneuvered him aside, Reich was an advocate of using the tax code to reward corporations that avoid layoffs by retraining workers, among other things. He also talked about creating a "corporate hall of shame" to pillory the bad guys...
...question is how to do it fairly. That's what this conference tried to address." Clinton avoided calls from the left, including his own Labor Secretary Robert Reich, to take a more activist approach to combating stagnating wages and job insecurity. Earlier this year, Reich advocated reforming the tax code to reward corporations that avoid layoffs by retraining workers, among other things. Clinton, eager to distance himself from the big-government label, is urging companies to take these steps voluntarily. Saporito says that will only happen when companies realize that worker-friendly policies can help the profit margin. "Corporations will...
...custard-yellow Ferrari leaps out among the pickups and sedans in the parking lot. (It looks better beside the mostly marble, gargoyle-graced home he just built.) And yes, John Carmack, id's president and chief visionary, is having his own Ferrari custom built from parts. But the dress code is shorts and T shirts, as set by the ponytailed Romero, who at 28 is the eldest partner...