Word: help
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...pugnacious businessman who probably had his share of enemies when he was alive. But the real estate baron made a final gesture that will win him friends for years to come. Weinberg, who died last week at 82, willed nearly $1 billion to a family trust to help the poor. The sum represents his entire estate, except for $3 million he left his grandchildren. The trust will distribute up to $45 million a year to the needy as Weinberg dictated: one-quarter to Jewish charities, one-quarter to non-Jewish groups and the rest to organizations that serve the poor...
...pared its work force by some 6,000 workers, to 109,000. Businesses are also reducing overhead by cutting expenses and perks. Marriott, the highly leveraged hotel chain, recently instituted a salary freeze of up to one year for senior managers and three months for administrative and clerical help. Harcourt sold off its fleet of corporate jets and got rid of its chauffeur-driven limousines...
...sclerotic to survive. Various pundits thought they detected a budding anarchic streak in the voters, a sullen, throw-the-bums-out attitude toward all incumbents, good and bad, Democrats and Republicans. Some political analysts forecast a populist revolt and called for campaign reform and mandatory term limitations to help restore the public's flagging confidence. But for all the advance drama and disquiet, when the ballots were cast and counted, the country did not seem to have changed much...
Presidents have historically been of minimal help to their party's candidates in off-year elections, which are nearly always dominated by local issues and local personalities. But few, if any, of Bush's predecessors worked harder to affect the outcome. Thus while he and his staff can legitimately take some credit for the G.O.P. victories, they will be unable to avoid some of the blame for the defeats. Even though the election hardly represented a Democratic landslide, the returns do not bode well for Bush. Says former Democratic National Committee Chairman Robert Strauss, who is by no means certain...
...hallmark of the new, tougher Bush may be that he will begin reaching outside the White House for political advice from the team of savvy, experienced advisers that helped him win in 1988. Despite the respect and gratitude Bush feels for his combative and often insensitive chief of staff, John Sununu, Bush understands he will need the help of others in the politically difficult months ahead. Says one Bush intimate: "He has come to realize that Sununu is no good at message and strategy. Sununu plays to one of the President's worst tendencies, which is to think that...