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...getting under the presidential skin. Not just because of the personal nature of his needling either -- although that is getting extreme. Sample insults from his latest round of TV interviews: Clinton is "still doing things the Arkansas way, like trying to give the travel business as a political payoff . . . the President ((is)) . . . trying to flimflam the American people." All this in addition to % Perot's now celebrated crack that he would not hire Clinton for any job above middle management...
...Administration was unprepared at this early stage to deal with a foreign policy problem of such high risk and low payoff, one that even the old hands in the Bush Administration had shied away from. "The question raised by Clinton's performance," says a U.S. diplomat, "is not just his backbone but his basic competence." A measure of the Clinton team's frustration: at the last meeting of the President's advisers before his May 1 decision to send Christopher to Europe with a sample case of options, a frustrated participant asked, "Isn't there anyone outside the government with...
...only was there often no payoff on the bottom line, but corporate chiefs who expected at least some applause from Wall Street for reducing labor costs also got a nasty shock. "Senior executives may think that a press release announcing layoffs sends a signal like, 'Look, I'm cutting costs, therefore reward me,' " says Carol Coles, president of Mitchell & Co., a management consulting firm in Waltham, Massachusetts. "But investors are a lot savvier than that. They know that firms that had major layoffs often have more significant problems. Streamlining a company does not push stock prices higher...
...late of Springtime" is not a conventionally palatable film. There is no easy payoff or pat resolution. Given a chance, however. "A Tale of Springtime" reveals itself as profoundly rewarding...
...Kuwait, says he was forced into Iraq by soldiers during a business trip near the border. Michael Wainwright, 41, claims he was admitted to Kurdistan by Iraqi guards while visiting Turkey. Both are now serving long terms for illegal entry, and Iraq has tied their fate to a payoff demanded of the British government growing out of the Gulf...