Word: took
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...course, just having something warm running through her veins may be one reason Tipper, and not Al, had to be the one tagged with bringing the cold-blooded Coelho aboard. Coelho, after all, is a ferocious partisan, who took no prisoners in the Reagan years and resigned from Congress in 1989 rather than face questions about how he came to purchase on favorable terms a $100,000 junk bond from a Democratic donor. Gore is stalked by campaign-finance ghosts of his own, and so it will look a bit better if Coelho turns out to be Tipper's idea...
...will be a challenge, because until now, Gore seems to have been concentrating on practically everything else. Just when Bill Bradley, his only rival for the Democratic nomination, began gaining on him in the polls, the Veep became obsessed with bugs in his online-campaign Web page, www.AlGore2000.com It took advisers a while to get him to move on to something else. But even then, he insisted on a controlling interest in a half-dozen other parts of the campaign operation, and the overall effect approached what several described as gridlock. Coelho is supposed to fix that...
...people who have been killed in the name of nonexistent "racial purity" are no laughing matter, nor is all the energy we spend fighting over what separates blacks from whites instead of what they have in common. It would be easier to heal the racial breach if we took Truscott's lead and treated it as what it is: a quarrel among cousins...
...Chrysler had become a world leader in low-cost, high-volume auto production. Purchasing arrangements had been revamped so that suppliers took on as much as 70% of the cost and manufacturing responsibility for new cars--a success that prompted the Harvard Business Review to describe Chrysler and its suppliers as an "American keiretsu," a reference to Japan's synergistic business groups...
...Grube's PMI teams. Schrempp's response was less than polite. "What?" he barked at one point, gesturing so hard his momentum nearly carried him off the podium. "You have a problem, you call me and we fix it." Schrempp has been convinced all along that unless one side took the initiative, the union would fail. "I must have studied 50 mergers," says Schrempp. "And I learned that to avoid others' mistakes the only answer is speed, speed, speed...