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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Campaign fatigue. Hang in there, pal. One more week, and we'll all borrow your line...
...took Reagan's ardent campaigning for his Vice President to push Bush Sr. over the finish line. If Gore gets over his desire to keep the President at a distance, the Happy Warrior is ready to roll. On his way to meet Hillary in Queens, Clinton stopped at the Jackson Hole diner for its renowned Burger Deluxe (peppers, onions and mushrooms with a side of fries), signed a T shirt for a waitress's daughter and posed with everyone from grill man to busboy to fellow patrons. He dropped three quarters in the jukebox, selecting Elvis' Don't Be Cruel...
...country, but it may not be able to sustain another fabulist; one can be called an accident, a trick of history, but two would amount to a culture of governance, a way of being. It is by institutionalizing the acceptability of lies that a great power becomes a punch line...
...driving force behind the breakup is AT&T's conviction that at current valuations the parts are worth more than the whole. The official line is that the smaller, nimbler companies will be more profitable independently. "With their own resources and asset-based stock they can shape their own destiny and future," says Armstrong. But the plan also reflects AT&T's frustration that investors have been so focused on its evaporating long-distance business. The split is designed to force Wall Street to pay more attention to faster-growing parts of the company...
Once, the CEO had to run the business and watch the bottom line. Now he or she has to be a strategic visionary, an operations hawk and the chief salesman--meanwhile keeping Wall Street investors happy. "You've got to get in front of Fidelity one day and Janus the next and still keep the shop running at home," says management consultant Gary Stibel. As the past year's string of departures reveals, many ceos aren't up to the task...