Word: robert
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That's harder than it sounds. After all, when Seinfeld went off the air, NBC couldn't run a test pattern, and by the way, now that Michael Jordan has retired, how are the Chicago Bulls doing? Summers, currently the Deputy Secretary, is following a similarly tough act. Robert Rubin, perhaps the most popular Treasury Secretary in the postwar era, redefined that Cabinet post from discreet adviser and signatory of our currency to a sort of global emissary and projection of American geopolitical clout as it is expressed now--not in warheads or throw weights but in loan guarantees...
CONS --Diverse cultural backgrounds: she's the second cousin of Prince Charles; he grew up in Ridgefield, N.J. --She may have picked up some bad marriage tips from twice playing Princess Diana in TV movies --Her last marriage, to producer Robert Evans in 1998, was annulled after 12 days...
...WINNERS] ROBERT RUBIN Others get office party. He resigns; market shudders. Uh-oh, shower of brimstone on Greenspan exit...
...Robert Rubin is happy. He's leaving the Treasury and Washington's rat race. Rubin's deputy, LARRY SUMMERS, is happy. He has been nominated to take over the Treasury Department. And STUART EIZENSTAT is happy. He's been promoted from his job as Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs to be Summers' deputy. The only one unhappy is Secretary of State MADELEINE ALBRIGHT. She lured the Washington-savvy Eizenstat from the Commerce Department two years ago to grab back some control of international economic policy, which the State Department had ceded to other agencies. Since then, State...
...easy enough to find harbingers of the Quincy episode in the early coverage of President Dole's candidacy. In April 1999, for instance, Robert Novak reported that officials of the National Petrochemical and Refiners Association, whose meeting in San Antonio, Texas, Mrs. Dole had addressed, were informed in advance that in the question-and-answer session following the speech she would provide not only the answers but also the questions--a procedure the White House press corps has so far been unwilling to embrace...