Word: zelle
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PROGRESSIVE WHITE Southerners are scared by Buchanan's campaigning success. Two Democrats and a Republican--former Louisiana Governor Buddy Roemer, Georgia Governor Zell Miller and South Carolina Governor Carroll Campbell-blasted the Challenger's campaign tactics on Sunday morning television. And it's no accident that the Journal and Constitution article covering the Buchanan campaign ended with an excerpt from a conversation between the candidate and Robin Jackson, the president of the Houston county NAACP...
...Clinton event in Atlanta on Wednesday, Georgia Gov. Zell Miller criticized what he called the former senator's "soft" stand on the death penalty--which Clinton proudly supports...
Political bribery is another ripe area of investigation. In Georgia last week Governor Zell Miller and house speaker Tom Murphy testified before a federal grand jury probing reports of payoffs to legislators for passing a law enabling First American to buy the National Bank of Georgia when both banks were controlled by B.C.C.I. A report of those alleged bribes originally came into the hands of the CIA in 1986, according to TIME sources...
Former Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young wanted to accomplish in Georgia what L. Douglas Wilder had in Virginia last year: become his state's first black Governor. But Young's dream went a-glimmering last week as lieutenant governor Zell Miller drubbed him in a runoff for the Democratic nomination, winning 62% of the vote...
Other investors seek to profit from failing companies by buying them and turning them around. Sam Zell, chairman of Chicago-based Itel Corp. (1989 revenues: $2 billion), is raising up to $1 billion for a fund that would acquire firms at fire-sale prices. Says he: "Anytime you have a period of excess, you're going to have a period of distress that follows. Our sole purpose is to buy good companies with bad balance sheets. Our goal is to restructure their finances and come out the other end with a viable company." Zell is hardly alone in his ambition...