Word: phoned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sidelined Michael Jordan during play-off season, who had been muttering quietly to just about everyone for weeks that his buddy Al's campaign was a mess? Was it the President's killer fund raiser and old Coelho protege, Terry McAuliffe, who fretted daily into his cell phone about the way things were going? Or, wait--maybe it was Dick Gephardt, another Coelho friend, with whom Gore has suddenly become comrades-in-arms again after a nasty Ten Years War? Surely the Speaker-in-waiting knew that Gore needed a shove, and fast--right...
...choice. "It's not that results don't matter," he says. "But judging solely on results is a serious deterrent to taking the risks that may be necessary to making the right decision." And the smooth-talking Rubin was one of the few men who could pick up a phone, as he did in late 1997, and persuade his brethren at banks and trading firms up and down Wall Street to keep their money invested in South Korea, an economy that at the time was melting down faster than a scoop of ice cream on a hot asphalt road...
...smile seemed to evoke a future that made Russians dreamy with hope. But Yeltsin today is an all too familiar Russian archetype. Reclusive and suspicious, the President lives in a tightly sealed world. Most presidential meetings are rigid and formal. Senior Cabinet ministers and aides have an old-fashioned phone next to their desks. Instead of a dial it bears a simple sign reading THE PRESIDENT. It is widely understood, however, that the phone is for answering, not calling...
Ambassador James Sasser knew real fear when his wife Mary told him over a mobile phone that a mob of Chinese students was smashing windows, pitching Molotov cocktails and apparently preparing to break into their Beijing residence. Sasser was half a mile away, trapped inside the U.S. embassy by a similar mob, unable to step outside the door without risking his life. "That was the worst of it all," Sasser told TIME, "not being able to get to my family." It was 3:30 on Sunday afternoon in Beijing, 34 hours after American bombs had wrecked the Chinese embassy...
...much for the vaunted "strategic partnership" between the U.S. and China. Less than a year ago, President Bill Clinton and President Jiang Zemin stood side by side in Beijing cordially airing their differences in a joint press conference. Last week Jiang refused to take Clinton's phone calls. "Without question," says a senior U.S. diplomat in Washington, "this marks the low point in relations since 1972," the year Richard Nixon visited China. When Madeleine Albright went to the Chinese embassy in Washington to offer her apologies, Ambassador Li kept her waiting in an anteroom for 20 minutes, then pointedly told...