Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...private, Greenspan is full of insights like this. He is as much an observer of people as of markets. Rubin, among others, says the joy of working with Greenspan lies in both the power of his intellect and the sweetness of his soul. Though the world has come to know him through his opaque congressional testimony, friends know him as the Juilliard-trained saxophone player who spent two years touring with a swing band before taking up economics. The quiet romance of the man has always been present if you looked hard enough. Ayn Rand told friends, "What I like...
...develop a clear understanding of the options. "He doesn't just sit by and sign off on policy," Rubin explains. And, Rubin says, Clinton has been willing to make politically tough decisions when necessary to assure U.S. growth--bailing out Mexico in 1995, for instance. "I really don't know what would have happened with this global climate if we hadn't had a President who had within him the framework to do what was best for the global economy," Rubin says...
None of the three men will talk about life after government, though Rubin says of Summers, "Larry is one of the few people smart enough to be either chairman of the Federal Reserve or Secretary of the Treasury." Few who know Summers doubt that he will someday hold one of those jobs...
...phone rings in an instant--a few blocks or a few thousand miles away. And it's not just any ring. Everyone in the house has a separate phone line, each with a distinct sound. So when they're all huddled together watching a movie on cable, they know who needs to get up to answer. Of course, no one really has to get up, because they all have a cell phone handy, and it doesn't cost anything extra to take the call that way. Best of all, this whole web of communication--via Internet, cable TV, hard-line...
...case has uncovered an informal network of suspected pedophiles who share ways to avoid getting caught. In separate investigations, nine men have been taken into custody for intending to leave the U.S. for sex with minors. "It's always been a shadowy existence. We don't really know what we have yet because we're only getting into it," says Walter Deering, special agent in charge of the State Department's diplomatic-security service, which has investigated recent cases of child smuggling...