Word: neill
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Until he retired from the FBI in August, John O'Neill, 49, was America's pit bull on terrorism. As head of the bureau's national-security operations in New York City, he oversaw investigations into the 1998 embassy bombings in Africa and the 2000 attack on the U.S.S. Cole in Yemen, both believed to be the work of groups linked to Osama bin Laden. Two weeks ago, O'Neill began a new job: chief of security at the World Trade Center...
...modern House of Representatives, though, has a nasty tendency to devour its leader. The Speaker's gavel has changed hands four times in the past 14 years. Tip O'Neill was the last Speaker to leave without being ousted by scandal or electoral defeat. Denny Hastert may hope for a long reign in the top job. But if the economy keeps going south, Hastert, the former high school economics teacher, may be undone by the subject he once taught...
...literally. Rubin, Secretary of the Treasury under President Clinton, is easily found in his chairman's office at Citigroup, the banking colossus. Fat lot of good that does us. The Bush Administration faces an all-out market crisis and can offer only wavering reassurances from the untested Paul O'Neill, the former Alcoa boss and current Treasury Secretary. And then there's Bush himself, whom no one sees as supremely tuned to Wall Street worries...
...Bushies have tried to step up. The President, in a halting Friday press conference, admitted that he was "concerned." Oh, great, now we're petrified, went the market response as stocks fell on that word. O'Neill has said he expects normal economic growth of 3% or more next year. But it's not clear he said it loud enough for anyone to hear, much less be convinced...
...Bush's defense, the current climate is different from anything Clinton and Rubin faced. The '98 panic was an overseas event that never did reach these shores. And let's not forget that the stock bubble inflated on Clinton and Rubin's watch. Bush and O'Neill are left to deal with the aftermath, and slowdowns that stem from burst bubbles are tough to fix. Ask the Japanese, who are still wrestling with the results of a market meltdown that began 12 years...