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...logged on to Thomas, the source for legislative information on the Internet, and was disappointed to find that their enormous database isn't as user-friendly as I'd expected. After reading their FAQs and stumbling around bills from the '80s doing searches on "mandela" and "apartheid" with no results, I gave up. MORE...
Chernuchin hopes past performance is no guarantee of future results, now that workaday Americans buy stocks and CNBC plays in hair salons. In the go-go '80s, he had friends on the Street who once flew him on a leased jet to Pebble Beach in California because they felt like playing golf. "[They] had more in their pockets than I made in a year," he says. But what stuck with him was the drama in their work. "It was the power and the game. They weren't just interested in closing a deal. They wanted to crush the other...
...Lavender Hill Mob. It saw him locate the suicidal pride of the colonel in The Bridge on the River Kwai. The camera may even have captured an on-the-fly self-portrait when the older Guinness sat, purring and omniscient, for the role of George Smiley in the two '80s mini-series Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy and Smiley's People. Perhaps, in the sum of these men, we caught a profile of the composite Guinness character: he defined what it meant, at the sunset of the empire, to be an Englishman...
...premier bricks-and-mortar developer for the past 40 years, now belongs to James V. Kimsey, co-founder of America Online and the guy who brought the new economy to Washington's doorstep by keeping AOL in his hometown. He entered the high-tech world in the early '80s when he became chief executive of Control Video Corp., an interactive-games company. Then Kimsey hired a kid from Pizza Hut named Steve Case. In 1985 he and Case started Quantum Computer Services, the company that became AOL, now a $135 billion giant that by the end of the year hopes...
...GREENWOOD Paleo-G.O.P. lives! Philly is phanatic over '80s crooner's God Bless the U.S.A...