Word: bidness
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Some diplomats felt that other elements in the government had welcomed and perhaps encouraged the asylum seekers' escape bid. "If Alia wants to break with the conservatives, this is his opportunity," said a Western diplomat. "It is tailor-made for a showdown...
Jesse Jackson announced last week that he would seek election as a District of Columbia "Shadow Senator," a nonjob created by the D.C. Council as a way to lobby for statehood. No real surprise there. But the eye opener is that Jackson made his bid after several private meetings with Ron Brown, chairman of the Democratic National Committee. Brown, a close ally during Jackson's 1988 presidential bid, won his leadership post by promising that his ties with Jesse were a thing of the past. Yet a Jackson spokesman says Brown agreed "to mobilize the party" to help Jackson...
This time, however, the real clout rests with the oil-rich countries. Cut off from its former sources of supply and struggling from a failed bid to buy Getty Oil, Texaco turned to its former junior partner, Aramco, for help in 1988. The result was Star Enterprise, a fifty-fifty joint venture between Texaco and Aramco, for which the Saudis paid $1.8 billion. The venture operates three U.S. refineries and markets fuel at 11,450 filling stations...
Mazowiecki may be hoping that, by removing the issues, he can demonstrate that the trade unionist's presidential bid is firmly rooted in personal ambition. He might be hoping as well that, in return for a crack at the country's top job, Walesa will allow the government to get on with governing...
...Crack down on such illegal, but largely tolerated, anti-competition tactics as bid rigging and price fixing. With more competition in Japan, U.S. companies will presumably have a better chance to break into Japanese markets...