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...I.R.A. bombing: "It was very clear as we were putting the city center back together that we needed to build the listed [legally protected] buildings of the future. We spent time learning what good design was about. We used architectural competitions a lot - and we paid attention to detail." Phil Griffin, a local architectural writer, says "Manchester is realizing more and more that it can dare to be different." The challenge for Manchester was to come up with a master plan that would integrate the impoverished north with the wealthier south, parts of the city that were split...
...bush"), into one called Spectrum 7 in 1984 and then led the struggling firm into Harken's embrace in 1986. In exchange for his 15% stake in Spectrum, Bush got Harken stock worth some $320,000; he was also hired as an $80,000-a-year consultant. Harken founder Phil Kendrick explained it this way: "His name was George Bush," he told Time. "That was worth the money they paid...
...friends, and family. The result is a sweeping portrait, covering Nader's small-town Connecticut boyhood, his days at Harvard law, the David-and-Goliath battle with GM that launched him into the spotlight, and colorful encounters with characters as varied as Albert Einstein, Gloria Steinem, Fidel Castro, Phil Donahue, Susan Sarandon, Upton Sinclair and Al Gore. The climax of this extraordinary story is an astonishingly revealing insider's account of the 2000 election...
...stinging new Congressional report, obtained by TIME, mocks claims of ignorance by Enron board members like former CEO Ken Lay and Wendy Gramm, the wife of Texas Senator Phil Gramm...
...page document. The bipartisan study also raises the likelihood that one-time Enron board members will come under renewed pressure to resign directorships at other major corporations like Lockheed Martin and Qualcomm. Wendy Gramm has already stepped down from several of her board assignments, but her husband Phil, apparently carrying on his wife's mission, is leading the GOP bid to block reforms due before the Senate this week that are designed to prevent future Enrons...