Word: zelle
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Democratic National Convention a few weeks ago, keynote speakers Bill Bradley, Zell Miller and Barbara Jordan painted vivid pictures of an America gone awry. The socioeconomic gap between white and Black and rich and poor has always been vast, but since 1981 it seems to have widened even more. Politicians who play on Americans'' increasing fears of race and class strife may very well win the election...
...keynote speakers, Sen. Bill Bradley(D.-N.J.), Georgia Gov. Zell Miller and formerTexas Representative Barbara Jordan, all spoke ofthe "American dream," specifically in relation toeconomic issues...
...Georgia lawmakers added a Confederate emblem to their state's flag, top, to express distaste for school desegregation. Last week Governor Zell Miller proposed taking it out: "We need to lay the days of segregation to rest...
...interest on part of their debt by slashing prices and wreaking havoc on their competitors. Most companies that take refuge in Chapter 11 ultimately fail anyway, critics say, leaving creditors with even fewer assets than if the firms had been liquidated in the first place. Says Sam Zell, a Chicago financier: "It isn't good for the economy to prop up cripples and hand them unfair advantages that allow them to bleed income and help destroy the healthy competition...
Experts say big firms should speed through Chapter 11 in the same no- nonsense way. Chicago investor Zell would give companies an "absolute deadline" of one year to reorganize or go out of business. "By having little discipline, you create a huge playing field for a lot of ghouls to make a living," he says. "They're all feeding at the trough." For all the richness of his metaphors, Zell has a point. Tight deadlines could curb Chapter 11 abuses by encouraging companies to get out of court quickly and return to the business of surviving in the marketplace without...