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...Vice President has been an influential adviser and workhorse for the Clinton Administration on many issues, including trade, with his high-profile trouncing of Ross Perot in a NAFTA debate; foreign policy, with his up-front role in the Kosovo crisis; and technology, where he has championed the multibillion-dollar effort to wire all schools to the Internet (even if he didn't create...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Leadership: Is Al Gore a Hero Or a Traitor? | 4/26/1999 | See Source »

Triantafillou said there is always a tension between universities and towns, with towns subsidizing schools because of the educational benefits they provide. In this case, however, she said Cambridge is subsidizing a multibillion corporation--Harvard...

Author: By Edward B. Colby, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Council Debates University Tax Status | 4/6/1999 | See Source »

...Primakov arrives in Washington with a full "to do" list. His biggest hope is for a multibillion-dollar loan from the International Monetary Fund. So far the IMF insists that new loans will be contingent on fiscal responsibility in Moscow. Faced with a choice between lending and chaos, however, the IMF may well cut a check...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russia: Nuclear Winter | 3/29/1999 | See Source »

...February 1996 the agency has arrested more than 3,000 people at Sky Harbor. "This is a pretty enterprising group of individuals," says Virginia Kice, spokeswoman for the Western regional office of the INS. "Drug smuggling gets a lot more press. But the smuggling of human beings is a multibillion-dollar enterprise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hot Ticket: The Airlines' First-Class Problem | 3/15/1999 | See Source »

...high-flying financial managers? Surely such people--and their very rich clients--know precisely what they're doing. Surely. But that faith didn't prevent penny-ante investors from enjoying a bit of Emperor's-new-clothes schadenfreude at the near collapse of Long Term Capital Management, the secretive multibillion-dollar hedge fund based in Greenwich, Conn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Second Acts | 12/28/1998 | See Source »

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