Word: dealing
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...priorities are, in descending order: guest, media, national, and limited-edition corporate-sponsor pins. He claims his collection stands at 25,000. "I've given out 5,000 pins in exchange for a smile," he says. Falcao prides himself on his diplomacy and his knack for sealing a deal. A man approaches him and offers a Korean delegation pin, but the one he wants Falcao to give him in return - an IBM-laptop pin - is far more valuable. "This is a $30 pin!" Falcao tells the man. "Touch it. Feel it." The man walks away; Falcao is irked. "I will...
...told students that this quality was also evident in the leadership of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Class of 1904, the architect of the New Deal and a former Crimson president...
...this election there has been a great deal of talk about representing the "people, not the powerful." Unfortunately, in the context of the past legislative session, this phrase represents more than just charged rhetoric. In the last two years, Congress has been remarkably concerned with the welfare of businesses and employers, and has repeatedly attempted to limit access to justice for the poor and disadvantaged. Three bills stand out as examples of how this past Congress--and specifically the more partisan House of Representatives--has gone out of its way to hand out judicial plums to those who need them...
...things happening at once [in the 1970s]," he says. "It was the era of boundless expansion and rising stock markets came to a shuddering halt. That increased the financial burdens; you're desperately trying to keep money. The other thing, of course, was there was a great deal of student unrest...
...world's poor, and that the burden of debt owed by developing countries to the G7 industrialized nations threatens to keep them permanently impoverished. But while the protesters are calling for the IMF and World Bank to be disbanded, representatives of the developing world who are forced to deal every day with the reality of a global financial system in which the cards are stacked against them but on which their liquidity depends are fighting a battle within those institutions. "[World Bank president James] Wolfensohn and [current IMF head Horst] Kohler have become extremely important allies for us," Manuel told...