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...bought more companies than ITT's Geneen, who during the second half of the 1960s was called "the greatest businessman alive." ITT made telephone equipment, ran hotels, built homes, rented autos, sold insurance, made grass seed and rented billboards. He believed in big and swore that "if risk is a bucking bronco, a conglomerate is the best way to enjoy the ride...
...weeks ago, Premier Zhu Rongji swore to former U.S. Trade Representative Carla Hills that there would be no devaluation "for at least two years." Hills was stunned. She says, "I told him that's very different from just saying, 'I'm not going to devalue.' I said I think investors would like to know that. And he said, 'Yes. You can say, Not within at least two years...
...demands visceral, spiritual discipline. Freedom can be based only on firm ethical and legal norms, and these norms have to be hammered out and strengthened for centuries by those who fought for freedom. But we received our freedom as a gift from our masters' hands. Ten years ago, Russia swore by freedom--and measured its worth by the availability of sausage. We had borrowed the concept of freedom from those who had succeeded at it, but we never realized that we had misinterpreted this ideal...
...Clinton swore an oath that he Had no sex with Lew-in-sky Then she got immunity Oh, fate can be so cruel...
...Kimeses may be the biggest mother-and-son crime team since Ma Barker and her boys swore off bank robbing. The Oklahoma-born Sante, 63, has a rap sheet stretching back to the 1960s. Among her more exotic crimes: stealing a $6,500 fur at a Washington piano bar and enslaving illegal Mexican immigrants to work as maids. Kenneth has been convicted of robbery and assault. Mother and son are jointly accused of using a worthless check to buy their $14,000 Lincoln Town Car--the charge for which they are now locked up in a New York jail. They...