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...President's worst tendencies, which is to think that if you concentrate on policy and do the right thing, virtue will be rewarded. Well, the press and the Democrats aren't going to see it that way." By the end of the year, White House sources predict, a Bush re-election committee will be formed, possibly under the leadership of Commerce Secretary Robert Mosbacher or businessman Fred Malek. As if to underscore how the election changed the President's outlook, Bush and Sununu late last week lunched at the White House with some of his old political allies, including former...
...combined support for the other four presidential campaigners had also risen -- from 5% to 14% in less than a month -- and polls showed that nearly one-third of the electorate was undecided. "It is very difficult to predict the outcome," says Professor Adam Bromke of the Polish Academy of Sciences. "All that seems certain is that no candidate will get the 50% required for a first-round victory...
Yeltsin and his aides predict that Gorbachev's halfway measures will fail, forcing the Soviet President to adopt the 500-day plan after all. But for the moment the controversy is coming close to open economic war. The Russian parliament last week passed a law placing all property in Russian territory, except that belonging to the Soviet military or the KGB, under its control. Gorbachev had earlier got the Supreme Soviet to grant him power to fire the heads of businesses that refuse to obey orders from the central government. It remains to be seen which jurisdiction can make...
...This is not the type of league where you can predict who is going to win," McCutcheon replied. "Our players have matured to realize how many good teams there are out there. The players know you can't take anybody lightly...
Difficult and slippery as some of these issues may be, companies must address them. Otherwise they will fail to fulfill a vital responsibility of any firm: recruiting and nurturing strong future managers. Learning how to lead a diverse work force may be maddeningly complicated. But the alternative, management experts predict, may be alienated employees working at cross purposes. At Du Pont, an exhaustive series of new training courses helps employees explore sensitive issues dividing the sexes and races. In a three- day program, men and women hash out their differences in an encounter-style setting. Another seminar explores a topic...