Word: formerly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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What, for example, does he think about his former label? "[Mercury] had a terrible distribution problem," he says. "I've had humongously huge hit records, and I'd walk into like the local Target and--no stock." Nor is he fond of Jay Leno's Tonight Show: "I was on that show once and it was like, 'Ahhhh! This is brain damage!'" And like many of the ordinary folks who make up his fan base, he's fed up with the situation in Washington. "I don't understand how they got those [Clinton grand jury] tapes on TV," he complains...
...back home for a visit with her father, a local physician who communicates in sarcasms. The hidden truths about their unshared lives pop up when least expected, a delayed-action effect that Munro achieves by casting the story as an unsent letter from the woman to her former lover...
...trail, raising and giving away more money and making more stump speeches than any other Democrat. But AL GORE is having trouble putting together his team for 2000--something he hopes to have settled soon so that the operation is in gear by January. A bevy of current and former aides is waging an increasingly nasty struggle over who will run the campaign, with competition particularly intense between former top aides JACK QUINN and PETER KNIGHT. Also in the running for major roles are current chief of staff RON KLAIN, Housing Secretary ANDREW CUOMO and former aides ROY NEEL...
...appears that the investigation into unclaimed bank accounts of Holocaust victims may cost the Swiss banking establishment a billion-plus francs (say $800 million)--perhaps more than the total value of the original deposits. The international investigating commission under PAUL VOLCKER, former chief of the Fed, says it needs until June 1999 to finish its work. The Volcker Commission has 500 chartered accountants combing through tons of archives at 63 banks, and those sleuths don't come cheap. The bankers are livid about the expense and time; some of the smaller banks are threatening to throw out the commission...
General Augusto Pinochet must be praying for the flu. Unfortunately for him, the former Chilean dictator got a clean bill of health today from the London Hospital where he's been recuperating from surgery...