Word: gerald
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...desert the mainstream candidates? How about: because they are bored stiff with them. Chirac first served as Prime Minister in - this is not a misprint - 1974. Jospin has been a leading light in the Socialist Party since 1973. Imagine being asked to choose, this year, between Jimmy Carter and Gerald Ford: you'd look elsewhere...
...clean up the mess better than Pittman, which is why he asked his top deputy to go back to Dulles, Va., on a new rescue mission. "AOL is our biggest problem, and so we're putting our best fighting general on it," says Parsons, who was designated CEO when Gerald Levin abruptly announced his resignation last December...
Such incentive trusts are a hot topic in estate-planning circles, in which the issue of how to leave money behind without ruining your heirs is getting almost as much attention as tax planning. In Beyond the Grave, authors Gerald and Jeffrey Condon argue that incentives don't work. "True character cannot be molded by money," they write. "You cannot salvage by inheritance what you fear you have not accomplished during your life." But others endorse incentive trusts as a useful way to motivate silver-spoon heirs. "Provide a resource, not an entitlement," says Joanne Johnson, a wealth-adviser manager...
Bush's hand in the Riordan candidacy drew a postgame rebuke from Vice President Dick Cheney's old boss Gerald Ford, who told the New York Times that when he was President he had a "firm policy" not to play favorites in a primary. Ronald Reagan was so leery of showing preferences that he sometimes resisted posing for pictures with anyone who was up against another Republican. And George H.W. Bush broke the rule so rarely that his former political director Ron Kaufman could recall only two instances, both of which occurred when the elder Bush was Vice President. Senior...
...leader of the extreme right-wing National Front, Jean-Marie Le Pen, who ranks fourth, was first elected to parliament in 1956. Le Pen is trailed closely in the polls by Arlette Laguiller, a Trotskyite bank clerk on her fifth presidential run. One begins to wonder if Jimmy Carter, Gerald Ford, Helmut Schmidt, James Callaghan and other long-retired statesmen might still be in the running if they had been French. Or whether it is time for a new revolution to bring in a Sixth Republic with a compulsory retirement age for politicians - unless they come up with new ideas...