Word: lloyds
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...choice for Treasury Secretary, Texas Senator Lloyd Bentsen, 71, is a business-friendly millionaire who chairs the powerful Finance Committee. California Congressman Leon Panetta, 54, named as Clinton's Budget Director, commands high regard from his peers for his work as chairman of the House Budget Committee. Bentsen's deputy will be Roger Altman, 47, who served at Treasury under President Carter. Altman, an investment banker like Rubin, knows financiers from New York to Tokyo...
...FORTUNE-TELLERS by Lloyd Alexander, illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman (Dutton; $15). In Cameroon a young carpenter consults the town fortune- teller. "You're going to pay me a nice fee," the seer predicts. What he doesn't foresee is that the laborer will end up as the town fortune-teller. This ingenious adventure suggests the magic of the Arabian Nights...
...QUESTION WAS TRICKY, AND BILL CLINTON REalized that he didn't have to answer it. Instead he gestured toward Texas Senator Lloyd Bentsen to respond for him, adding with a laugh, "The great thing about having a Cabinet . . ." The sentence was incomplete, but the thought was clear: having chosen a team, the President-elect was no longer alone...
...CLINTON ECONOMIC TEAM WORKS WELL TOGETHER, that may be because some members already have a trusting relationship. For years, Goldman Sachs co- chairman ROBERT RUBIN has personally supervised a blind trust that holds investments for Texas Senator LLOYD BENTSEN, Clinton's designated Treasury Secretary. Rubin, who will be Clinton's senior economic adviser, resigned from Goldman last week to accept the White House position. Now Bentsen must decide whether to leave the trust with Goldman or move it to another firm...
...YULETIDE FLURRY OF CHEERY STATISTICS has done nothing to shake Bill Clinton's focus on the U.S. economy as his top priority. The President-elect's first major appointments, expected this week, will be his economic team. Clinton's choice for Treasury Secretary, aides say, is Lloyd Bentsen, the Senate Finance Committee chairman. The senior Senator from Texas, who was nominated for Vice President in 1988, is seen as having the stature and experience to steer Clinton's economic plan through Congress. Investment banker Roger Altman, a Treasury official in the Carter Administration, is said to be the leading contender...