Word: neill
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...other over whether or how to combat the slide in the stock market. They like a good roll in the dirt over such issues as the definition of a market bubble. Says one spectator: "It's like a boxing match but with highly dweeby language." Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill, who prides himself on his real-world pragmatism, honed during 13years as head of Alcoa, belittles Lindsey's academic theories by telling war stories from his boardroom days. Inreturn, Lindsey once denounced an O'Neill suggestion as "yet another bad idea...
...Though Republican advisers to the White House have pushed for a voice with credibility on Wall Street, no new names have surfaced to fill any vacancies. Secretary O'Neill has survived his numerous verbal blunders and is likely to stay, but in the background. Aides say Commerce Secretary Don Evans will step up to become the public voice of the economic team, but that's a prediction they have been making for months, and it has yet to happen. "The President really wants it," says a top official, "but it's not that easy to do." The White House tried...
...people and the people who read FTC reports doesn't have enough overlap to be worth 2 1/2 years of effort. What he didn't understand, and why he should use whatever little bit of remaining FTC budget he has left to take his staff to a Eugene O'Neill play, is that people want to be deceived. You don't go to John Edward because you believe, but because it's nice to pretend you believe, to bask in the lie. Miracle cures aren't about the cure, but about the miracle. And while that may mean grating lobster...
...humor piece. You said President Bush "loves it when the elite are upstaged by the streetwise" because he thinks it reflects his life story. Bush is about as streetwise as Malcolm Forbes Sr. was on his Harley. But when the article went on to credit Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill and Bush's Council of Economic Advisers with deep thinking about the economy, I didn't know whether to laugh or cry. Perhaps George W.'s message on corporate fraud would be less garbled if he could get that silver spoon out of his mouth. STEVEN HAWLEY Issaquah, Wash...
Bush's Latin America team argues that this is why it refuses to bail out unreformed kleptocracies like Argentina. Buenos Aires, said O'Neill, still lacks a "crystal-clear idea of the rule...