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After listing Rudenstine's height (five feet, nine inches), weight (155 pounds) and car (1985 Ford Tem- po), the magazine reports Rudenstine'sself-deprecating reaction to the honor...
Then, just as Ford and Chrysler were reporting 20% gains in car sales, GM products slipped 3.7%. This created the potential for a fourth-quarter loss of $1 billion, to finish off a record third year in the red. Because of declines in its investment portfolio, GM's unfunded pension liability has swollen from $8.6 billion to $11.4 billion. GM is preparing to freeze salaried wages and again suspend executive bonuses, selling off money-losing operations like National Car Rental and stopping production of its slow-selling Cadillac Allante ($61,675) sport coupe. Not even the Allante's powerful...
...tongues out if their parents so much as reach for an Instamatic. Roll your eyes once, and you will become tabloid material and Saturday Night Live's poster child. For guidance, do not look to Caroline and John Kennedy Jr., who were too little to be criticized, or the Ford kids, who were accidental White House tourists with sleep-over rights. Let Amy Carter serve as a cautionary tale. And get a dog: it deflects attention away from you better than...
Several administrations have had economic coordinating offices. Some were workable power centers; others were abject failures. By all accounts, the best was President Ford's Economic Policy Board. "Ours worked for two reasons," says William Seidman, the former Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation chairman who ran the board. "First, Ford insisted that no decisions be made until they passed through the board's processes, which kept end runs to a minimum. Second, ((Treasury Secretary)) Bill Simon wasn't interested in running the day-to-day operation. He forcefully presented Treasury's view but never pulled rank. He was satisfied...
Following Ford's example, Clinton will face the challenge of selecting people willing to play their assigned roles without complaint. If his appointment of Harvard's Robert Reich to oversee economic issues during the transition translates into Reich's anointment as Economic Security adviser, the Administration will be well served. "Besides being smart as hell, Bob has the temperament to manage competing egos," says Roger Altman, a Clinton economic-policy adviser. "He is unflappable and well respected, someone the others could work with harmoniously, knowing their positions would be faithfully presented to the President...