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...Roald Amundsen has beaten him to the South Pole, a voyage he has tried and failed at. Undaunted, he vows to become the first to cross Antarctica. His wife (Phoebe Nicholls) pleads with him to keep his promise to stay home and go into business. "I'm not a salesman," he demurs...
That night the old ways were very much alive. The gala, which raised almost $24 million, has been criticized as a prime example of Washington's salesman culture. A TIME investigation reveals just how excessive it was: at tables sold for $25,000 apiece were oilmen seeking to lift U.S. embargoes against Iran and Libya; nuclear-plant owners looking for government backing of a burial ground for reactor waste; and coal, refinery and utility executives out to ease pollution standards. In addition to writing the kind of huge soft-money checks that the reform bill would outlaw, energy firms lent...
...DAVID SIEGEL Travel Salesman...
...That night the old ways were very much alive. The gala, which raised almost $24 million, has been criticized as a prime example of Washington's salesman culture. A TIME investigation reveals just how excessive it was: at tables sold for $25,000 apiece were oilmen seeking to lift U.S. embargoes against Iran and Libya; nuclear-plant owners looking for government backing of a burial ground for reactor waste; and coal, refinery and utility executives out to ease pollution standards. In addition to writing the kind of huge soft-money checks that the reform bill would outlaw, energy firms lent...
...count), little Korea will grow anywhere from 3.2% to 6% this year. That would make it the star performer in Asia after mighty China, expected to post growth of about 7%, according to official, and largely disbelieved, government estimates. Says Paul Presler, a market analyst and equity salesman at Nomura Securities in Seoul: "Korea has done a better job of restructuring and attracting foreign investment than anybody else in the region...