Word: mayor
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Underlining that fact, one of the company's public relations videos highlights endorsements from Jiang, Vice Premier Zhu Rongji and Shanghai mayor Xu Kuangdi. SIHL's chairman, Cai Lai Xing, 55, an economist, helped prepare Shanghai's economic blueprint for the 21st century, and managing director Zhuo Fu Min, 45, was involved in reforming the city's state-owned enterprises. Zhuo nonetheless downplays political connections as the key to the company's success. Says he: "SIHL makes investments based purely on business...
...been widely reported that Moskowitz gave money to Jerusalem Mayor Ehud Olmert, though Olmert denies receiving so much as "a penny" from Moskowitz. In a rare Israeli newspaper interview in August, Moskowitz confirmed that he had helped Netanyahu financially. "Yes," he said, "not much, and in the framework of the law, from my private funds." His main support, he added, was consultation. "Every time Netanyahu asked for advice, I helped. We are friends...
...roofed farmhouse with his strawberry-blond Swedish wife. He read books, put idle thoughts to paper and played in a bridge club every Friday. She baked bread, tended garden and strolled into the nearby village of Champagne-Mouton on market day, tall and delicate, a sight so fair the mayor's tired old heart would stir. The Gold Creek met the Silver Creek near the Mallons' acreage, and all around, the gentlest breeze would set fields of sunflowers ablaze with waves of golden light...
...year-old bridge partner, attended. He can't believe Einhorn did it, but his wife jokes with him; make sure your new partner isn't a murderer, she says. When not in crisis, Flodin, the dutiful Earth Mother, still demonstrates against a proposed nuclear-waste dump site nearby. Mayor Jack Jouaron, 68, loves it when she comes to city hall with her leaflets, flush with political passion. "For an old man like me, it was something to talk to a beautiful blond Swedish girl like her," says Jouaron, who wonders how she can be so serene...
...best, most important newspaper in the country, authoritative and unfailingly serious. Yet in some fundamental way, it is also out of the mainstream--snooty, austere and loathe to go near gossip, even when it concerns the performance of such major figures as President Clinton and New York City's Mayor Rudolph Giuliani...