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Most of the 80-plus hour workweeks that consume the lives of junior bankers are not about participating in high-level negotiations--or high-level anything. They're about scouring through hundreds of pages to find a number for a spreadsheet on a company's financials, running back and forth from the copy center to finish a presentation book, Fed-Ex-ing things at all hours of the day and night and keeping a smile on your face when you haven't slept in three days...
Maybe the DNC should cut Alex Castellanos a nice fat check. After all, the GOP adman has produced a TV spot that's eliciting torrents of high-level sweat over at RNC headquarters (and, no doubt, torrents of jokes for Jay Leno and David Letterman...
...could prove difficult to exploit politically. For one thing, Cheney has won high marks for his stewardship at Dallas-based Halliburton, transforming it into the world's largest provider of oil-field services. He arrived in 1995 and boosted the fortunes of a company beset by low oil prices and slow growth, raising revenues to $15 billion. Cheney's high-level contacts in Washington and around the world helped bring in business. Under Cheney, the company's Brown & Root construction subsidiary has worked hand in hand with the Democratic Administration--as it had done before him with the Bush White...
Albright: [The visit] to China will be the first high-level visit since the House vote [approving permanent normal trade relations]. I also want to talk about other issues such as proliferation, human rights, Taiwan and Asian stability...
...Crimson unveiled the $3.3 million Jordan Field, which has a synthetic surface--a necessity for high-level field hockey. Jordan opened a world of potential that Harvard (12-7, 4-3 Ivy) came heartbreakingly close to fulfilling, dropping seven games, but five by a mere goal...