Word: presidental
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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The daughter of Sukarno, Indonesia's first President, Megawati spent her childhood in the presidential palace and has a Brahmin's sense of entitlement. She instinctively shuns the business of dealmaking and says, "For me, silence is a political act." But her refusal to engage with other parties, plus the...
Of even greater concern is Wahid's fragile health. He suffered a stroke in 1998 that left him unable to walk unaided. "We need a leader who can unite the nation, and he has the capacity," says Emil Salim, a respected former Finance Minister. "But Gus Dur is not a...
Goldsmith doesn't have to understand ads to profit from them. All he has to do, as president of sales and marketing at the ABC television network, is sell lots of 30-sec. slots. And now that dot.coms are caught up in a frenzied race to make their brands widely...
For the beleaguered television networks, the explosion of dot.com advertising is helping to push up rates 10% to 20% this fall. "It's created an unnaturally tight market," notes Jon Mandel, co-managing director of ad buyer MediaCom. The online magazine Salon recently rolled out a provocative $4 million TV...
Striking with cruel randomness across an increasingly elderly population, Alzheimer's disease afflicts some 4 million Americans, most of them over the age of 65. They may range from a former President to a neighbor next door, but the ailment is always the same: it clutters the brain with tiny...