Word: summer
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Dupree is among the five best in the country and a likely selection to the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney...
...years Cuba's communist dictator, Fidel Castro, has chafed, rattled and raged under the cold-war headlock of a U.S. trade embargo. But this past summer the wily presidente sensed an opening. Philadelphia health-care-products giant SmithKline Beecham (a subsidiary of SmithKline Beecham in Britain) got the Clinton Administration's O.K. to pay Cuba some $20 million for the rights to test and market, in the U.S., a meningitis vaccine developed by Cuban scientists. Embargo rules still require SmithKline to pay initially in barter instead of dollars--a Yanqui condition that aides expected Castro to reject. To their surprise...
TIME: In New Delhi you are held responsible for last summer's war with India. How do you hope to normalize relations with India...
...billion. He'd been forced to reduce his price by $450 million after Japanese financial regulators claimed that one of Safra's clients, Princeton Analytics, may have cheated Japanese investors out of $1 billion. The bank had also lost $191 million from Russia's 1998 debt default, and last summer alerted the FBI to the possibility that some of its accounts were being used for money laundering by Russian organized crime. Indeed, concerns over money laundering prompted Republic National only last month to end some 40 percent of its dealings with Russian banks. All of that will inevitably provide fertile...
...Shemmer lived in New York growing up, but was born in Tel Aviv--there's an Israeli flag in his bedroom and a military uniform in his closet. A psychology major at Penn, his only real business experience in college came almost by chance: one summer he found a job at an Israeli Internet start-up, as a secretary, but the strapped company promoted him on the second day. Shemmer's job at Broadview was equally unplanned. Unlike better-known investment banks, Broadview limits its business to the high-tech sector--Internet start-ups, Web-based companies, computer firms. Broadview...