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...elements of gracious victory. Empathy: "Until Florida's votes were certified, the vice president was working to represent the interests of those who supported him." A tip of the cap to the vanquished: "This has been a hard-fought election, a healthy contest for American democracy." And the payoff: "The vice president's lawyers have indicated he will challenge the certified election results. I respectfully ask him to reconsider...
QUOTE "Anyone who tells you they're not doing it for the money, anyone who hints the payoff isn't important--they're lying...
...down the campaign posters that have been obscuring your courtyard view for the past several months--sit back and take a few minutes to take stock of your current situation. Lest you enjoy falling prey to political rhetoric and inflated electoral promises, today's prudence will be tomorrow's payoff...
...immediate payoff, according to many economists, has been a boom in productivity that has raised America's once barely detectable gains in output per hour of work to a robust 5% in 1999. That permitted the economy to grow at an unbelievable 8.3% annual pace in last year's final quarter while inflation stayed comfortably below 3%. "The New Economy," Sinai notes, "creates efficiencies and lowers the cost of everything...
...Authority, with a staff of 170, can't follow up on every complaint it receives, and Tesauro wields considerable power in choosing where the agency will focus its energy. He has decided to take on high- profile cases that offer a big payoff in public support. In July the Authority opened an investigation into the National Association of Pharmacy Owners for prohibiting individual pharmacies from offering discounts on products whose prices are not regulated. "The monopoly of the pharmacies, above all for items that are not medicine, is somewhat medieval," Tesauro says...