Word: harrimans
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...revolving door between Washington and Wall Street is nothing new. Cold war mandarins, such as Averell Harriman and Robert Lovett, shuttled back to their banks between stints of public service, and more recently such former officials as Peter Peterson, William Simon and Paul Volcker have become renowned in the investment world. But all these men were financiers by trade and training. Now a fledgling but fast-growing investment group has discovered that global dealmaking these days is as much about cashing in on connections as it is about cash calculations. Rather than seeking big names with proven financial acumen...
...PAMELA HARRIMAN'S Washington parties...
...FAUX-JEWELRY DESIGNER KENNETH JAY LANE IS election-proof. For the past few years, he has supplied Barbara Bush with her signature pearls. Now he's got a Democratic line: little gold saxophone pins. Lane sent the first sax out of the mint to Democratic Party godmother Pamela Harriman...
...since 1947 have helped lift global commerce from $57 billion to nearly $3.5 trillion. The U.S. and the E.C. may very well patch together a compromise. "My prediction is that France will back off just enough to make a deal possible," said Lawrence Veit, international economist at Brown Bros. Harriman & Co. in New York City...
...surprise birthday party, asked him to get quote after quote about the Panama Canal treaty. "I said, 'Arthur, why don't you call Ellsworth Bunker and see what he has to say?' Arthur got a quote from Bunker a few minutes later. Then I said, 'What about Averell Harriman?' He got a quote from him. Then another elder statesmen, and another. Finally...