Word: greenberg
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...SHOULD HAVE BEEN there a few weeks ago when Steve Forbes held one of his campaign bashes at New York City's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. Joan Rivers emceed. The $1,000-a-plate tables were flush with interested parties like Alan ("Ace") Greenberg, head of the prominent investment firm Bear Stearns, and Leonard Lauder of the Estee Lauder cosmetics family. More than 1,400 people attended, which meant about $1.2 million for the campaign treasury. It was a big night for Forbes, his most successful fund raiser...
...some of Forbes' business-world friends, including Greenberg, Lauder and Philadelphia developer Richard Fox, have served as shakers of the donor tree, persuading others to chip in. While they deny seeking personal gain, if Forbes wins, they still might hope for special treatment from his White House. (Or if he loses, from his magazine.) Charles Lewis, author of The Buying of the President, sees it this way: "Forbes is a millionaire who says he's not beholden to special interests who is now beholden to special interests...
...read Primary Colors, I built my own code book--a list of the characters matched with their real-life counterparts. Around page 90 I gave up in exhaustion, having deciphered three dozen names (an insider's Who's Who that includes Grunwald, James Carville, Harold Ickes, David Wilhelm, Stan Greenberg, Bob Kerrey, Tom Harkin, Paul Tsongas and Mario Cuomo). Some of the portraits are so deliciously vicious, I can only assume the author is settling personal scores. Take this description of the fictional stand-in for Hillary's much feared close friend Susan Thomases: "She was awful beyond imagining...
...TIME/CNN poll, 63% of those questioned opposed any reduction in protection for endangered species. Fifty-nine percent opposed the expansion of logging, mining or ranching on public lands. And 67% were against opening up the Arctic refuge to gas and oil exploration. One of the President's pollsters, Stan Greenberg, is advising Clinton that defense of the environment plays well with many Perot supporters, who are inclined to see any attack on environmental law as one more case of special interests getting their way in Washington...
...drives a gray Lincoln Town Car without a chauffeur and does his own tax returns. He keeps a summer home at Laguna Beach, California, but shuns the water, preferring to stay inside and work. "It's a great [ocean] view," says Susan Buffett Greenberg, the eldest of Buffett's three children, "but he's never seen...