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...this area are far from unique. National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft returned to Government after advising foreign clients as vice chairman of Henry Kissinger's international consulting firm. Largely because Scowcroft is a noncontroversial official serving in a post that does not require Senate confirmation, there has been scant debate over the propriety of ) his prior business entanglements. Such quiet acceptance is not likely to be the fate of Lawrence Eagleburger, who became president of Kissinger Associates in 1984, after 27 years in Government. About to be nominated as Deputy Secretary of State, Eagleburger is expected to face a grueling...
...rhetoric can be excused, for as the President said, now "it's time to govern." But governance requires agonizing choices, and Bush, like his mentor Ronald Reagan, stoutly declined to confront them publicly. The President's program, as he defined it, is all gain and no pain, with scant need to explain the inherent contradictions...
...falls according to the individuality and vision of the company's artistic leader? Ball, who regarded the ouster of an artist by a board of directors as a kind of theft, stipulated when A.C.T. came to San Francisco that the local board must serve only as fund raisers, with scant say over what plays he chose, what actors he cast, or how he ran things. By the late 1970s, predictably, board members demanded more power. Ball refused, and ultimately they quit...
Hope and Elizabeth Dole attended the Law School together at a time when women made up a scant 2 percent of the student body. Hope says they've been close ever since...
...instituting the rule of law has been a critical element in the drive to modernize China. The government has issued a plethora of statutes covering everything from murder to trademark infringement. The legal profession has finally regained its status. Indeed, the number of Chinese lawyers has soared from a scant 2,000 in 1980 to 25,000 today, and some 70 legal publications are in circulation...