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Paul's situation is dicier. He's a loan officer at a local bank. On paper, he is listed as management. But there may be some title inflation here: a recent Department of Labor report found some 16 million people listed as managers, executives or administrators, which means most of them must be fairly far down the ladder. And that really describes Paul. His problem is that in the last year, half the people in his department have been...
...make matters dicier, a merger would also bring Malone, the chairman of Tele-Communications Inc. and a man with a bent for elaborate corporate schemes, into Time Warner's fractious family. Malone, who stands to convert the 21% of Turner stock he controls into about a 9% stake in Time Warner, strung out the talks with a long and changing list of demands that threatened to block an agreement. "He asks for everything," says a Time Warner executive. "You never know when he's finished." Levin and Malone hashed out their main differences at a Sept. 9 meeting...
Says Wolf: "For future elections, it's going to be a lot dicier...
...much dicier showdown, however, is coming this week, when the Senate takes up Clinton's plan for a quick $16 billion spending stimulus to the economy. Again it faces solid Republican opposition (though probably not a filibuster), and this time more conservative Democrats may defect. Clinton planned to get on the telephone to waverers, and his bill probably will pass in some form. But without weakening amendments? Stay tuned...
...tale underscores the difficulties of helping people who are dangerously malnourished. Starvation is a complex biological process; the more advanced it is, the dicier the treatment. During the famine in Somalia, perhaps the worst ever recorded, average food intake for adults has dwindled from a satisfactory 1,700 calories a day in 1988 to a hopelessly inadequate 200. A majority of children under the age of five have already died in some regions. "The mortality is higher than that of the Irish potato famine," says Daniel Miller of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. "It's the worst...