Word: chairman
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Gore, Joe Lieberman and campaign chairman William Daley spent Friday working the phones, calling moderate Democratic House members and Senators, shoring up support. But even Gore's legal team was aware of the dangers. Imagine the perception, an adviser noted: "Al Gore lost the election but won it back in a lawsuit." He added, "I don't think his support will collapse immediately, but there's got to be some real concern about a guy who lost the initial returns, the automatic recount, the first certification and the second certification...
Republicans argued, so can we. But the G.O.P.'s march turned into a mob. The screaming, the pounding on doors and the alleged physical assaults on Democrats suddenly made a bemused public queasy. "I'm all for anyone's right to protest," says Miami-Dade Democratic chairman Joe Geller, who had to have a police escort. "These were Brownshirt tactics...
...They haven't naturally come my way," he says when asked why he hasn't worked in this genre before. "I wouldn't be the first guy to choose for something like this." Actually, he was at the top of the wish lists of director Nancy Meyers and Paramount chairman Sherry Lansing. Meyers (who penned the 1991 "Father of the Bride" update and its sequel) had directed only one picture, the 1998 remake of "The Parent Trap," but Gibson watched it and signed on. "I wouldn't naturally go see something like that," he says, "but I enjoyed...
...shortage? There are few hard facts, but lots of theories. Anecdotal evidence suggests that more men than women respond to the lure of high-tech jobs that don't require a bachelor's degree. Some call this the Bill Gates syndrome, after the college-dropout chairman of Microsoft. But high-tech industries employ only about 9% of the U.S. work force. Amid the hot economy of recent years, a larger group of men - especially those from lower-income families - might be heading straight from high school into fields like aircraft mechanics and telephone- and power-line repair that...
...Filicaja, 55, the first executive from outside the family. When he joined the firm in 1995, Geddes brought his experience as CEO of the Italian subsidiary of Remy-Cointreau and COO of Antinori wines, one of Frescobaldi's toughest competitors. "Giovanni brought a more professional mentality," says patriarch and chairman Vittorio Frescobaldi, 70, with a laugh. "We needed to change the mind-set." To do that, Geddes hired staff from the likes of Procter & Gamble and Arthur Andersen to work with family members. "I convinced the family that everything had to make financial sense," says Geddes...