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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Those are the main jobs. She's also got to keep her boss from stumbling into any unexpected crises, and she brings to this a passion for problem solving and cutting through diplospeak. When she sits down with her senior aides each morning, they reel off two-minute reports on North Korean famine, the chemical-weapons treaty pending in Congress, the hostage standoff in Peru. "How does our policy jibe with Peruvian policy?" she demands as she prepares for a meeting with President Alberto Fujimori. "I'm fascinated to know what's happening inside that embassy...
...working-stiff broker from Dean Witter tells a millionaire banker from Morgan to set aside 100 shares of a hot new-stock deal for one of his piddling accounts. The culture gap is vast. At Dean Witter, their Discover cards are dull from use--not gleaming tickets to Main Street...
...handpicked team of four lawyers, a paralegal, one legal assistant and a secretary worked with a curious dynamic. A logical and orderly man, Petrocelli is nevertheless superstitious and a creature of habit. In several of his big civil trials, he had set up a courtside work center outside the main offices of his law firm. Once settled in, he had never set foot back in the office until the trial was over. He had never lost a case when he did this, so the Simpson case was not going to be an exception. Gelblum laughs at his old friend...
...usually not enough of a big deal," says Travis D. Wheatley '99. "My main problems have always been the receptionists who seem to jerk me around. Those seem more like minor annoyances...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Finally, an explanation for all those double-seated strollers. A new government study shows that twin births have increased 42 percent since 19980. The main reason? Fertility drugs. Twin rates were highest in Connecticut and Massachusetts, with a rate of 27.7 twin births per 1,000 births between 1992 and 1994, in large part because mothers there tend to give birth later in life, when twins are statistically more likely, and use fertility treatments...