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BUSINESS: "Made in the U.S.A." is regaining some of its former luster as American firms strive for quality...
Although Leland had managed to persuade the House to create the Select Committee on Hunger and make him its chairman in 1984, famine lost its luster once the strains of We Are the World faded and the television lights went off. There is little money or prestige in hunger. Leland earned $22,650 in special- interest speech-giving fees in 1988; Illinois Congressman Dan Rostenkowski, chairman of the tax-writing Ways and Means Committee, earns nearly ten times as much as that. Laying guilt trips on colleagues until they provided $800 million for starving Africans during the sub-Saharan famine...
...difference is the heart of Quayle's salvation strategy. He staggered through the election branded an overprivileged airhead. As candidates or incumbents, Vice Presidents often attract some derision. For the young golf addict, it was a nearly lethal dose. "I came to the office adding a bit of luster to that ridicule," he muses. Allies advised him to go underground, to avoid risks. But with escalating speculation that Bush would dump him in 1992, Quayle and his advisers decided that inactivity was the biggest risk of all. "We had to move before the clay hardened," says his chief of staff...
...drowned herself in the Molotov cocktail of alcohol laced with utter honesty. John Pankow excels as the village lad who romanced each girl in turn, settled for the one who would have him, and went on to a diplomatic career that eclipses the golden clan's luster in every mind but the one that counts...
Last week all the accused lost. The jury found Walters and Bloom guilty of racketeering, conspiracy and mail fraud. Each faces up to 55 years in prison and a fine of up to $1.5 million. As for college athletics, it emerged with more of its idealistic luster tarnished -- just what it did not need after a bruising year of recruiting scandals and crackdowns by the National Collegiate Athletic Association...