Word: lloyds
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Clinton wouldn't go that far. Aides let it be known that the issue would wait until July, well, maybe September. That gave Magaziner three more months to crunch numbers. It gave skeptics from Lloyd Bentsen's Treasury Department and Laura Tyson's Council of Economic Advisers time to gather ammunition to scale back the proposal. Clinton wavered, but not for long; he still wanted to introduce it in the fall...
Britain's royal family ventures out to the occasional James Bond movie or Andrew Lloyd Webber musical, but rarely has it taken as keen an interest in culture as it has in Alan Bennett's drama The Madness of George III. Based on the actual derangement of the King who lost the American colonies, the play begins an East Coast tour this week in its Royal National Theatre production. For the House of Windsor, of course, it is not merely an entertainment. As director Nicholas Hytner recalls, "The royal family saw it as a sad and moving story...
...setbacks too. The high-tech investments in Clinton's economic-stimulus package "had Gore's fingerprints all over them," says an Administration aide, but the package did not survive. And Gore's influence was not enough to save the BTU tax from sniping by Senators and from Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen's willingness to carve out exceptions to it until there was nothing left. Budget Director Leon Panetta recalls, "When it was dropped in committee, there was a moment when I followed the Vice President into his office. He said...
...heavily on taxes, has been getting the VIP treatment: he met with Clinton on Saturday, with David Gergen on Sunday, spoke with chief of staff Mack McLarty on Monday, and even received a prized visit from Janet Reno on Tuesday. Two days later, he had lunch with Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen. Boren seems to be undergoing something of a personal crisis over the vote, talking at length to nearly everyone and acknowledging, "This isn't fun for me. Everyone is very cordial to my face, then I hear they say things about me behind my back...
...were the Maya, the people who built and later abandoned these majestic pyramids scattered around Central America and who enacted these bizarre rites? The question has piqued scientists across a broad swath of disciplines ever since an American lawyer and explorer named John Lloyd Stephens stumbled across something strange in the Honduran jungle. In Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas and Yucatan (1841), Stephens impressionistically described what was later identified as the ruined Maya city of Copan: "It lay before us like a shattered bark in the midst of the ocean, her masts gone, her name effaced, her crew...