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...DOUGLAS DILLON, 93, well-connected Wall Street financier, diplomat and lifelong Republican who served as Treasury Secretary under two Democratic Presidents (Kennedy and Johnson) and ambassador to France under a Republican (Eisenhower); in New York City. Dillon was an Under Secretary of State when he was tapped to lend bipartisan heft to J.F.K.'s Cabinet. At Treasury he advocated successfully for free trade and tax cuts and spearheaded Kennedy's economic-development program in Latin America. Although he was born to wealth and influence (he was the scion of the international banking house Dillon, Read & Co. and enjoyed close ties...
...alcoholic at the time, and we just never got along," Ginger says. But Ginger, at 29, found herself alone in Dallas, unemployed, nearly broke and almost suicidal. To her surprise, the one person from whom she wanted help was her mother. She asked Fran to lend her money. Fran, now sober, suggested that her daughter move in with her in Houston. They fought at first, but with the help of a psychotherapist, they slowly began rebuilding their rocky relationship. "I had to examine my own behavior and admit the mistakes that I made along the way," Fran says...
...islanders' know-how. Unlike competitors in Thailand and the Philippines, Phu Quoc's factories use only ca com, or long-jawed anchovies, eschewing competitors' methods of mixing other kinds of fish in with the ca com. The three-meter-high fermentation vats are made with special woods, which lend their own unique flavor to the sauce. The island's nuoc mam is so famous it has inspired would-be sauciers in Vietnam and further afield to trade illicitly on its tangy reputation. Nguyen Thi Tinh, president of the Phu Quoc Fish Sauce Producers Association, went on a business trip...
...Chirac put it, "that Germany and France would each take one step toward the other." The French gave in to the idea that the President of the European Commission should be chosen by the European Parliament instead of by the heads of the member states, a change that would lend the post more political edge, independence and democratic legitimacy. In turn, Germany acquiesced to France's campaign for a new post of E.U. President, who would chair the European Council meetings for two and a half years (with a possible second term), in place of the carrousel of national leaders...
...Funky Fresh Dressed” sounds made for a gargantuan boom box, and “Slide’s” ominous boom reels in the body like a black hole. Though technology coats the beats in platinum, the classic hip-hop samples laced throughout the album lend them a welcome mustiness...