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...empty-handed. Despite his vociferous opposition to agricultural subsidies, Armey agreed to the recently passed farm bill, even though it maintained federal payments to big sugar companies. "I had to take what I could get," he says. And he has even come to appreciate Dole, Washington's master deal cutter. "One reason is because my daddy raised me around workhorses and not show horses," Armey said at one of his recent district meetings. "I have come to like Bob Dole...
...have been more involved in Whitewater. Political wives are often left to build a nest egg while their husbands are building empires--see Marianne Gingrich (who has taken heat for career leaping from beauty consultant to representative of the Israel Export Development Company) and Honey Alexander (a deal cutter so successful she could do infomercials on how to turn $5,000 into $142,000). While the men grapple with macro-finances of the M-1 variety, it falls to their wives to micro-manage tuitions, mortgages and IRAs. Even the aggressively un-Hillary Elizabeth Dole has made--and invested--much...
...months, Proctor established a reputation as a relentless budget-cutter throughout the University...
...which is expected in the next few weeks), chairman Michael Jordan and other company officials have declined to give any details of their plans for the network. But Westinghouse, a veteran broadcaster that owns five TV and 16 radio stations, is known in the business as an aggressive cost cutter. Observers both inside and outside CBS think that doesn't bode well. "Larry Tisch has cut costs considerably over the years," says Dennis McAlpine, media analyst at Josephthal, Lyon & Ross. "The headquarters at Black Rock is decimated. There isn't that much [left] to get rid of. And this...
...today often appears worse than dowdy. To them it looks oafish, overgrown, hypocritical, rife with ineptitude and possibly--as some overwrought Americans insist on seeing it--downright wicked. By this light, the creation of a half-century ago comports with reality now about as much as the cookie-cutter shapes of its East River edifices still evoke an idealized modernity. Budget-strapped, groping for a fresh start, the U.N. seems to slouch toward the millennium like a limping panhandler...