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...club does very few things to officially stamp its approval on the issue,” Barro said. “There are lots of things in the party platform that people don’t necessarily agree with and the people in the club never discuss...
When Pang’s first day of class passed months later, he was still in Malaysia, waiting for his visa stamp...
DIED. MARVIN RUNYON, 79, onetime auto-assembly worker who as Postmaster General from 1992 to 1998 pulled the U.S. Postal Service into the black; in Nashville, Tenn. Raising the stamp price only once (from 29 to 32), he cut 23,000 management jobs, hired more letter carriers and raked in $1 billion in profit. Runyon began his career in 1943 at a Ford plant in Dallas, where he climbed to the post of vice president before leaving in 1980 to become Japanese automaker Nissan's first employee in the U.S. As CEO of its American subsidiary, he built Nissan...
...think back to 1996, when Howard won office. The first Howard ministry was a bunch of no-names; after 13 years of Labor rule, today's big guns, like Costello, Foreign Minister Alexander Downer and Attorney-General Philip Ruddock, had no ministerial experience. But the conservatives have put their stamp on the country, improved their party organization and employed the privileges of office to keep themselves in power. Howard became P.M. with a huge parliamentary majority; implementing his convictions - tax and industrial-relations reform, tougher gun laws and cultural realignment - cost him some of his electoral buffer...
...with any great conflict, the takeover attempt and the expected bidding war signals deeper strategic shifts. For years, Beijing pushed foreign companies into joint ventures with Chinese partners. The results were often disastrous for both sides. But as the Communist Party has slowly put its stamp of approval on privatization, it's become easier for foreign companies to buy into state enterprises such as breweries. Sensing new possibilities, SABMiller, owner of the Miller brands, gambled that Beijing might actually tolerate its unprecedented takeover gambit. If it works, "a lot of investors will try to steal a similar march on rivals...