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...Ellie, this includes a husband, Gerry (Stephen Rea of The Crying Game), a town planner engaged in a flirtation with a co-worker but too vague, wry and discontented with life to do anything conclusive about it or anything else; one female friend who is enviably up and abustle, another who is distressingly down and out, rendered dysfunctional by divorce; a part-time job in a bookstore and a full-time dream of becoming a writer herself...
...executives from reaching the top levels of American business. From the day she joined the global operator of hospitals known as National Medical Enterprises in 1980, she moved quickly through the male-dominated ranks. By the age of 47, she had done so well in her role as strategic planner that she was promoted to executive vice president and a director at the corporation, which has more than 48,000 employees and sales of $3.8 billion. Last year Heckendorn set her sights on the last big step: she aggressively sought the job of chief executive, a post that fewer than...
Hata's background is typical of the blue-suit mainstream of the Liberal Democrats. The son of a journalist turned L.D.P. legislator, he worked for 10 years as a tour guide and planner for a bus company in Tokyo. His hometown of Ueda, west of Tokyo, is where he likes to claim that he learned his "sensitivity for ordinary people, and what they really want from politics." Like many current L.D.P. legislators, Hata entered politics by taking over his father's seat and rose through the ranks by avoiding mistakes...
...moved their artillery. Strategically, they advised, even a far-ranging bombing campaign in Bosnia might not make much of a dent in the thinking of Serbian strongman Slobodan Milosevic, deemed the ogre behind the war. "The pain has to extend to Belgrade to have much effect," said a military planner, a step Clinton is not now inclined to take...
...stimulate the economy. When the deficit estimates mushroomed in early January, Clinton's aides said the stimulus might have to shrink, though the final amount seems very much in flux. "If we haven't figured out which combination of short-term and long-term economic proposals," said a planner, "then maybe we should just shut...