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What these well-meaning cherubs fail to take into account is that although the position of Adams House Committee chair is not an elected post, it is, to the best of my understanding, not merely doled out to the outgoing chair's partner-in-crime but handed over to the individual or individuals who have demonstrated the most desire to participate in the House committee. Participation, more than anything else, generally dictated who would be the next to lead. Since participation would generally be a good attribute in a job that requires quite a bit of activity (as opposed...
...solar power to remote villages. In 1994 he ordered the CIA to find out why countries fall apart. After feeding 2 million facts and figures from about 113 instances of national collapse into its computers, the intelligence agency came up with a startling answer: new democracies tend to fail most often when they have a high infant-mortality rate. Clinton's National Security Council quickly found itself boning up on prenatal care...
Schrempp knows this is risky, because mergers often fail, and big ones fail more often. So DaimlerChrysler is dancing a transoceanic jitterbug that is testing the limits of corporate convention. German and American bosses are fusing their cultures on napkins in airport lounges and in the conference rooms of five-star hotels. The transatlantic traffic became so heavy that DaimlerChrysler, which owns 20% of Airbus, bought an A320 and outfitted it like an NBA charter so its executives could get some sleep between meetings. The 53-seat plane (an A320 normally has 150 seats) flies four weekly round trips between...
...response was less than polite. "What?" he barked at one point, gesturing so hard his momentum nearly carried him off the podium. "You have a problem, you call me and we fix it." Schrempp has been convinced all along that unless one side took the initiative, the union would fail. "I must have studied 50 mergers," says Schrempp. "And I learned that to avoid others' mistakes the only answer is speed, speed, speed...
...says, ?and they are trying to maneuver carefully.? This means there may be a chance to get something enacted this week, but if so, it will be a hard-fought compromise. ?Republicans would like to do something that?s just enough to give them cover,? says Dickerson. Should they fail, there are plenty of people who are willing to take the gun control issue into the 2000 campaign -- including one prominent Republican presidential candidate. Seeking to distinguish herself from the conservative GOP presidential pack, Elizabeth Dole told an audience earlier this week that she?s against concealed weapons...