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...Watch Metzenbaum throw a right hook. Here comes Sen. Bill Bradley (D-N.J.) with a left jab. Yes, the Democrats have some fight left. The senators will connect, Gates will go down for the count and Bush will find a little dent in his invincible armor...
...SHOULD BE a familiar scene by now. Howard Metzenbaum, the cranky old senator from Ohio, leading his fellow Democrats as they grill the president's nominee. The nominee, sweating bullets, tries desperately to avoid the endless reformulations of the same tough questions...
...after day, we saw the scene during last week's confirmation hearings of Judge Clarence Thomas. Metzenbaum and the rest of the Democrats were frustrated. Not satisfied. Getting their shots in against the president's choice...
...midst of these developments, on April 12, six U.S. Senators arrived in Iraq on a regionwide fact-finding mission. The group included Republicans Bob Dole of Kansas, Charles Grassley of Iowa, Alan Simpson of Wyoming and Frank Murkowski of Alaska as well as Democrats Howard Metzenbaum of Ohio and James McClure of Idaho. The group was taken to a hotel along the Tigris River, ushered into a suite and presented to Saddam. They were asked to surrender their tape recorders and cameras...
Sometimes it's hard to believe Metzenbaum was a businessman before becoming a Senator. The quarter's profit increases looked so dramatic because the corresponding period in 1989 was the industry's worst in a decade. Disregard its Valdez-size write-offs of 1989, and the industry's total profits rose only 11% in 1990. That still didn't make them especially high. They represented just a 13.5% return on the shareholders' equity, far lower than in such businesses as cosmetics (30.5%), pharmaceuticals (29.5%) and restaurants (19%). "No one is accusing the cosmetics industry of making obscene profits," says William...