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Jury selection for her trial on racketeering and other charges carrying up to 50 years in prison started last week in the same courtroom that saw the bravura performances of Leona Helmsley and Bess Myerson. For sheer Wagnerian greed, the tale of Imelda could put the Hotel Queen to shame. Jurors will have to decide whether a wife always knows what her husband is up to -- in this case, deposed President Ferdinand Marcos, who died last September. "The Marcoses were masters of deception," said prosecutors. "They elevated three- card monte ((a form of shell game)) to an art form." Scoffed...
That label won't stick on "mainstream" Clinton. Comfortable being whisked off in a limousine in the evening to Antoine's by lobbyists for RJR Nabisco, the quintessential symbol of 1980s corporate greed, he can then preach Democratic values in the morning. Clinton is the perfect front man for an organization that celebrates the work ethic of the common man while relying almost entirely on the Fortune 500 for operating funds. Although Clinton has recovered from his stupefyingly long prime-time address at the 1988 convention, he is still a techno-Democrat, one of a dozen...
...shops, restaurants, supermarkets and other businesses suspected of abusing young workers. In all, the operation uncovered 7,000 minors who were illegally employed, which could result in more than $1.8 million in civil fines. "The cop is on the beat," declared Labor Secretary Elizabeth Dole. "Violations, whether motivated by greed or by ignorance, will not be tolerated...
...struggle for control of the Baltic Republics in the Soviet Union has shown that full-blown greed, competition and vicious take-overs are not the sole province of Drexel Burnham. The secession of the Republic of Lithuania from the Soviet Union promises to be bigger than the break-up of AT&T. Corporate raiders beware--Soviet President Mikail S. Gorbachev may soon be the new Carl Icahn...
...that is what is happening, beggaring all notions of propriety and common sense. The reason: unbridled, boundless greed. The owners show all the symptoms of terminal cupidity. During the past five years, they have used every stratagem -- including illegal collusion to restrict the movement of free agents -- to keep their hired help from gaining more of baseball's skyrocketing revenues. They have cried poverty but refused to let the players take a gander at the books...