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...sounded almost like the good old days on Al Gore's presidential campaign, with lots of dire talk about his opponent's risky schemes and secret plans, arrogant approaches and smug assumptions. Last week Gore managed to parlay what was to have been a simple health-care speech to medical reporters in Chicago into a dissertation on George W. Bush's coziness with the National Rifle Association. (A top N.R.A. official had been videotaped saying of Bush, "We'll have a President...where we work out of their office.") Gore also savaged the Texas Governor's Social Security plan with...
...soldiers on food stamps by counting their on-base housing as income. The proposal, not surprisingly, turned out to be a p.r. disaster. The Pentagon would have been cutting its food-stamp rolls not by boosting benefits but by a bookkeeping trick. Defense Secretary William Cohen ordered the scheme scrapped. Instead, Cohen is taking the opposite tack. He wants to stop counting the off-base housing allowance no longer calculated as part of a soldier's income. Doing that, Pentagon officials acknowledge, could double the number of soldiers on food stamps. Cohen says it is wrong for soldiers...
...trend, which first cropped up last spring, has blossomed into big business, due in large part to the widespread acceptance of more casual dress, both in the office and for evenings out. "Even though they're expensive in the world of T shirts, they're cheap in the scheme of things, because they're versatile," says Kal Ruttenstein, fashion director at Bloomingdale's, which has seen T-shirt sales jump significantly over the past six months. "They can be worn with jeans or under a $1,000 jacket, and they've replaced blouses and sweaters for the office...
...bushel of potentially lucrative stock options that could be cashed out after three years. With Villalonga at the helm, Telefonica became not only the country's biggest company but also one of its most profitable: it reported a 38% rise in net income for 1999. Protests against the stock scheme by labor unions and leftist politicians did little to rouse the public, in part because for most of the '90s the term stock options didn't even exist in the Spanish vocabulary...
...political tempest in the run-up to Spain's elections in March. The left-wing opposition to conservative Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar, a boyhood friend of Villalonga's, attacked Aznar's coziness with the Telefonica chief and the Prime Minister's tacit approval of the stock-option scheme, which the opposition characterizes as a brazen display of corporate avarice. United Left party leader Francisco Frutos branded Villalonga a bad role model for Spain's youth and called for a ban on stock options. The Aznar government pleaded with Villalonga to renounce the profits on his options, but he refused...