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...aides, after his release Thursday morning, said that during hours of interrogation, he was pumped for compromising information about Korzhakov's political enemies. The arrests and detention were almost certainly part of a power struggle, as Korzhakov is embroiled in a feud with Anatoly Chubais, a reformist economist currently running Yeltsin's campaign. "Korzhakov and his allies were waging a campaign to postpone the elections," says TIME's Sally Donnelly. "They are scared that they'd lose their jobs and power if Yeltsin lost the presidency. Korzhakov and company were probably trying to dirty Chubais and the election campaign...
...Senate also confirmed White House budget director Alice Rivlin to serve as vice chair and economist Louis Meyer for another vacant slot on the seven-member Federal Reserve board...
...growing state, but agronomists there predict that 50% of this year's crop could be lost, along with more than $200 million profit to farmers and producers. Prospects for the corn crop are just as barren. "Corn should be 8 ft. high by now," says Mark Miller, an agricultural economist at Texas A&M University, "but even in the best fields, it is only 4 ft. high." And that scrawny crop could be imperiled. According to Joe Pena, also of Texas A&M, corn grown in drought-stressed conditions can develop aflatoxin, a condition that makes the ears essentially poisonous...
Green says he suspended his career as an economist to become provost because he thought his main duty would be to engineer the University-wide activities Rudenstine at the time talked of creating...
...Economist Glenn C. Loury has argued that black Americans' chances of persuading the white majority to back aid to urban education, compassionate welfare reform and affirmative action depend on gaining their respect. And, as a high-ranking black official told me last week, "there is not a single member of the District government who commands respect in Congress. As long as Marion is the mayor, that is going to be the case...