Word: stephen
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...talks were down to the wire. In the balance: billions of dollars in the textile and apparel trade between the U.S. and China. Chief U.S. negotiator Rita Hayes climbed into a Chinese limo for a key meeting last January and was joined for a 20-minute ride by Stephen Lau, a Hong Kong textile tycoon and self-described adviser to the Chinese...
...million to settle a federal lawsuit charging them with making false declarations to Customs. Hayes says she knows nothing of Lau's links to the Democratic Party. Of her apparently brief sessions with Lau and his lobbyist this year and last in San Francisco and Beijing, she simply says, "Stephen offered his assistance...
Auto repair is only one of more than 70 municipal operations Indianapolis' Republican Mayor Stephen Goldsmith, the nation's leading exponent of "competing out," has spun off in five years in office. The city's wastewater-treatment plants are being run by a private company, at a projected savings of $65 million over five years. Indianapolis International Airport is now run by the British Airport Authority, which promises it will save $32 million over 10 years. Goldsmith even managed to privatize Indianapolis' 2,200-job Naval Air Warfare Center, which had landed on the Pentagon's base-closing list. With...
...surface have been rising so rapidly that they seem likely to equal those of the notorious El Nino of 1982-83, which left 2,000 people dead and $13 billion in economic losses. "That was the biggest El Nino we know of," says climate modeler Stephen Zebiak of Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, "until maybe...
...pathology. Our competitive society produces heroes, but it also brings down many who become disillusioned with their lives. What happened to Versace in Miami Beach, Fla., was a tragedy, and society does bear some of the responsibility, since it played a part in the creation of Versace and Cunanan. STEPHEN P. TITUS New York City...