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There were only about 40 people on hand to witness it last Tuesday night when Al Gore dipped a tentative toe back into politics. At a fund raiser for Massachusetts Representative Richard Neal at a downtown Washington steak house, Gore - still bearded and not yet back in fighting trim - tried out a few self-deprecating one-liners. He spends his days teaching a bit, he told the smallish room. "I'm a visiting professor - v.p. for short. It's a way of hanging...
...Diversification is also helping to create new jobs outside Korea's traditional mainstay employers, the conglomerates, which have been forced to shed staff to stay competitive. Shim Kyung Joo was working at giant Sunkyung Chemicals' game division when the Asian crisis hit. The financially strapped chaebol had to trim its business empire, so Shim secured some venture capital from the government and turned his division into a software company called Wizard Soft. Freed from the dead hands of chaebol executives, Shim and his young gamemakers were soon spinning off hit products like Jurassic Era Primitive War II. The company...
...Bush might have saved all this trouble by simply writing U.S. Steel, Bethlehem Steel and the other ailing domestic producers the up-to-$12 billion bailout check they wanted, allowing them to pay off those crippling "legacy costs," consolidate at will, and get back in fighting trim without affecting U.S. prices or global relations. But unless Bush changes his mind in the 30 days before the tariffs kick in, it's over. The decision is made, and the damage is done...
...dark dining room is elegant—the walls are a pale yellow with dark blue trim and Persian carpets line the floor...
...into the third. He pounced on a misplayed puck in the St. Lawrence zone and sent a high shot toward Saint goaltender Mike McKenna, who was able to make the save but did not control the rebound. Fried hustled after the puck and slipped it by McKenna to trim the deficit...