Word: vernon
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Three Mile Island. Chernobyl. And don't forget The China Syndrome. With their long, notorious track records of burning money and spewing toxic waste, it's hard to imagine that nuclear power plants could ever again be hot properties. But in Vernon, Vt., some of the nation's largest energy companies are battling to gobble one up. The Vermont Yankee plant, a 28-year-old nuclear war-horse, has become the target of a bidding...
...video; these establishments look like 1950s coffee shops. Customers can watch the doughnuts rising, and stores flash their HOT DOUGHNUTS NOW signs when the snacks are done. That sugar-coated assault on the senses has won Krispy Kreme (fiscal 2001 revenues: $301 million) a near cult following since founder Vernon Rudolph fried up his first batch in a Winston-Salem shop...
...bedroom, seven-bath, $2.8 million colonial on a third of an acre in an exclusive neighborhood. Secluded and quietly elegant, it has a spectacular garden in back, with a pool tucked in amid hundred-year-old trees. Nearby is the Naval Observatory, the British embassy and Vernon Jordan. The Clintons are so close to the vice-presidential mansion they will be able to see Allied Van Lines pull up and cart the Gore possessions off to a modest residence in suburban Virginia, and then watch the Cheneys move...
...thugs and the buttonmen--the ruthless James Carville, the self-righteous Paul Begala and the detestable ex-journalist Sid Blumenthal--all of whom treated politics as war and were ready to "go to the mattresses" at the drop of a subpoena. Adieu, gentlemen! And adieu, as well, to Vernon Jordan, the dapper consigliere; Albright and Reno, female bodyguards for the Little Rock Don; and George Stephanopoulos, lackey-turned-traitor-turned-pundit, who played Fredo to Clinton's Michael Corleone, and broke his brother's heart...
Grace periods were designed for a more graceful period, so maybe Bill Clinton should have known that transitions count. By the time Inauguration Day rolled around, he'd already weathered questions about Vernon Jordan's ethics, Zoe Baird's nanny and his own publicly stated faith in a possible "deathbed conversion" by Saddam Hussein. And then there was the tardiness question: Would Clinton be on time for his own presidency? As official Washington held its breath and frazzled aides awaited their marching orders, the President teed up Issue...