Word: chairman
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...think McCain's strategy on tax cuts is a mistake big enough to cost the upstart challenger his chance to win New Hampshire. "You can't run to the left on taxes in this state and win the Republican primary," says New Hampshire Senator Judd Gregg, Bush's state chairman. Gregg may be right about his home state but wrong about the rest of the country. In the TIME/CNN poll, Republicans by more than 2 to 1 say they would rather have a smaller tax cut with more money going to Social Security and debt repayment than a larger...
...AIDS debate is only the first act in a busy agenda for council president Holbrooke, who during his month in the post wants to keep the spotlight shining on Africa. He has already held an open discussion on sub-Saharan refugees, has invited Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Jesse Helms to address the council, and is trying to broker a peace in the multicountry Congo...
...which Net stocks soared, and there was little excitement about the plans being developed in its recently hatched digital division, despite projected outlays this year of $500 million. "We had a big uphill job as a corporation" to catch up with the established Internet players, notes Time Warner vice chairman Ted Turner. Levin was even contemplating "an internal takeover" of CNN to make it the company's digital division, separate from the rest of the Turner networks...
Swallow. "I'm sorry. Wait a minute." Swallow. "Can I add something?" Time Warner chairman Jerry Levin is speaking. It is 9 a.m. on the day after Levin and Steve Case, the CEO of America Online, have inked the biggest deal in corporate history. Levin is nibbling on pieces of fruit, sipping room-temperature mineral water and projecting a becoming tranquillity. He looks as if he's just stepped in from Harvard Yard, wrapped in a forest green corduroy jacket with an open-necked plaid shirt tucked underneath. When he speaks, his voice has the delicate cadence of a professor...
...Levin. To them, space meant NASA: engineers with buzz cuts, white short-sleeved shirts and clip-on ties. How did this guy with the disco moustache and the Shaft-era hairdo plan on paying off a satellite? "Somewhere in the Time archives there is probably a memo from [the chairman] saying, 'Who is this guy in the double-knit suit?'" Levin recalled last week. "But I knew I would win. It was the force of the idea...