Word: rubiner
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While some have called the pairing of Summers and his predecessor Treasury Secretary Robert E. Rubin as an odd one because of their differing styles of leadership, the two men became fast friends. Associates of the two men say they were able to draw off of each others' strengths, and made a formidable team heading up Clinton's economic issues...
...head of the Michigan system, Bollinger very much stood as a wholly independent executive. Although Summers led the Treasury, much of his success was shared with his predecessor, Robert E. Rubin '60, and Fineberg's tenure as provost was similarly linked to Rudenstine's presidency...
...slightly safer topic: treasury secretary. Bob Rubin and Larry Summers, both Greenspan buddies, are tough acts to follow, and one hopes Bush ran his Treasury shortlist (currently headed by ALCOA chief Paul O'Neill) by the Fed chairman, because the relationship between the Bush administration and the Fed will be Topic A for Wall Street's Beltway-watchers. The bad news: The new treasury secretary's first job will be selling that very same...
...pages of the Wall Street Journal or the New York Times? Take a number, and wait behind the bankers and professors. Eager to trash his endorsement of tax cuts? Expect to get his answering machine. He's on the other line talking to his old friend Robert Rubin, who put through an emergency call to Greenspan two weeks ago to try to muzzle the Fed chief's pro-slice stance...
...Chuck Schumer wanted to know how big a tax cut was "too big." Maryland Democrat Paul Sarbanes went after Greenspan with the jailyard shiv of Senate committee warfare - press clippings - quoting departed fiscal hero Robert Rubin and Newsweek contrarian Allan Sloan both savaging the idea of tax cuts based on these surplus projections...