Word: secrets
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Could this be true? Tipper Gore, fun-loving Tipper Gore, is really the secret mastermind at Gore headquarters? It was a bit hard to believe, but it at least had the virtue of being consistent with recent history. Like Hillary Clinton, who worked quietly behind the scenes to bring Dick Morris back from exile so he could rescue her struggling husband in 1994, Tipper hasn't been shy about telling her husband to snap out of it. And Tipper has been doing more than fixing things inside the Gore operation; she's also been fixing things on the outside. Just...
...enthusiasm for the deal, Eaton acceded to an acquisition of Chrysler by Daimler-Benz. And over months of secret talks, Chrysler's leverage was whittled away. Although Chrysler was more profitable, Daimler-Benz was bigger. Although the Americans wanted the new company to be based in the U.S., German law made it impractical and expensive. Inevitably, a German-registered company was going to be dominated by German managers, and it is. When it came to money, though, Eaton won a handsome premium for Chrysler shareholders (and top Chrysler executives) in a head-to-head negotiation with Schrempp...
...represents the junk-food people, the TV children, the spoilt young ones who have all their experiences, inferior as they are, handed to them on a plate." Nobody could say Steinberg was a particularly warm or approachable person. He loathed mediocrity and made no secret of it. He simply knew too much, and in his death he took that knowledge with him. He had no equals. Now he has no successors...
...deep dark secret of the Class of 1999 is that for all of our graduate school acceptances, scholarship awards and high-powered job offers, the prospect of developing social and personal lives on our own, away from this campus, is a bit frightening...
Sergei Stepashin is damned if he does and damned if he doesn't. After his nomination sailed through parliament Wednesday, the former secret policeman now shares the lot of all of Boris Yeltsin's prime ministers. "The very ease with which he was confirmed will immediately rouse Yeltsin's suspicion," says TIME Moscow bureau chief Paul Quinn-Judge. "After all, for all his ill health and mental diminution, Yeltsin still controls the political system here, and he's immediately suspicious of any prime minister who appears to get along with the Duma or enjoys public confidence. Of course, a prime...