Word: controller
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...that he doesn't know when the vice president will have time to write an e-mail. I tell him that it's just a five-minute bit about what's happening on the trip. Oh, we should be able to do that, he says. Great. Everything is under control...
...Saturday. Everything is not under control. By day's end Lehane still hasn't given me the hookup. I'm getting nervous; access to Gore himself has been virtually nonexistent so far; only daughter Karenna and her husband, Andrew, have been spending much time down below decks with the newsies. My editor's getting nervous; he wants this to work. Maybe I can ask Karenna to take up a note? Maybe pigs will fly. Lehane promises an answer by Sunday. I think about how to arrange an honorable death for myself...
...Davis wryly catches Joe Lieberman doing damage control: "'There is no rational reason why the markets should be in any way adversely affected by the positions and policies and programs of the Gore-Lieberman ticket,' he said. Sen. Lieberman's remarks came after a weekend of business bashing by Mr. Gore...
...next object of suspense could be the Time Warner-AOL merger decision, due in the fall from the FCC, which could set the regulatory climate for at least the next year (Time Warner, of course, is parent of this site). Or even the election, as Monday's damage-control dance continues with Gore sounding the battle cry and Lieberman whispering that the ticket will be pro-business again by October, not to worry. The way this matchup is shaping up - call it Carter-Reagan with a prosperity twist - we could get market ping-pong all fall. This market, it seems...
...Greenspan is sure to mention in his interest-rate meeting Tuesday, jobs are still very easy to find in this economy, and suitable employees very hard. Employee leverage is up, along with wage and benefit pressures. Labor unions are finding leverage where they had little before; the resource they control is in high demand...