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...promising ideas to turn into federal initiatives. Morris' clout is nothing like what it used to be, but he is said by a knowledgeable source to be talking to the President monthly. Clinton has recently dismissed some Morrisiana as worthless--but he often did that during Dick's heyday. Nevertheless, by constantly giving advice to Clinton on TV, as well as hinting that he occasionally has the President's ear, Morris is helping to rehabilitate himself. "He's got something to say," notes one White House aide, and "he's so manipulatively suggestive about his contacts with us" that...
...Philadelphia insurance man, LeBow earned an engineering degree at Drexel University and launched his own computer company. A few years later, he had to rescue it with a financial restructuring. In short order, bailouts became his business, backed by the infamous junk bonds of Michael Milken in his heyday...
Dealmakers had their heyday in the 1980s. Today the power on Wall Street resides with money managers, who control huge and growing pools of cash amid an unprecedented wave of investment by the American public. A flick of some fund manager's wrist can send $100 million barreling in or out of a single stock. That kind of heft flattens a lot of resistance...
That is exactly what she did, even as she slipped from public view. Madalyn Murray O'Hair's organizational and financial heyday occurred in the mid-'80s. Having worn out her welcome with authorities in Maryland, where she filed her original suit, and then Hawaii, she arrived in Austin in 1965 and established the Society of Separationists, later adding Atheist Centre in America and several satellite groups. By the late '80s, there were eight. Each had a five- or six-person board, and each board was dominated by Madalyn, Jon and Robin (she was Bill's daughter...
Sound farfetched? In fact, primitive versions of these self-created environments--known as role-playing games--have been a staple of the geeky sci-fi set since the heyday of Dungeons & Dragons in the 1970s. Computer networks make it easier for D&D enthusiasts to find one another and to create game sites that can support hundreds of players at once. The single most popular content area on the Games Channel, says Schick, is a role-playing game called Gemstone...