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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Most Overleveraged Spin-Off Donald Trump's securities were revealed to be guilt-edged when he went public with an illicit dividend, model Marla Maples. Ivana's projections for a divorce settlement plummeted when the Donald's teetering real estate empire had to give credit where credit was due. Principle was lacking all round. Interest dwindled...
Respected for his moderate, practical approach, Alexander will come to Washington with an impressive record of educational reforms. His Better Schools Program in Tennessee -- which features a merit-pay system for teachers, tougher standards for students and more computer, science and math instruction -- has become a national model. The ex-Governor favors deregulation of school bureaucracies to encourage innovation and strongly backs adult education to make U.S. workers competitive again...
...asset portfolio approaches a monumental $100 billion, which is invested in a bewildering array of stocks, bonds and entire companies around the world. Almost 70% of the total has been segregated for use when the wells run dry. The Fund for Future Generations, as it is called, is a model of enlightened policy and smart politics. "Other rulers in other places have kept the money for themselves and their friends, doling out just enough to keep their populations contained during their reigns," says Jasem Mohammed al-Hussein, a wealthy Kuwaiti businessman. "Our rulers, the Sabahs, have earned our loyalty...
...most of those depressed by Kuwait's democratic failings supported the Emir and Kuwait's system of government. Part of the reason is simple. To a Western eye, the list of authoritarian transgressions is chilling, but to those who live in the Middle East, Kuwait was something of a model of political openness. "The fact is that we could criticize everything, even the Emir, without fear of reprisal," says Abdulatif al-Tourah, a KPC employee. "If you spoke out as freely in other Arab societies as we did all the time in Kuwait, you could be jailed or killed...
...most controversial aspect of the SimEarth model may be its reliance on the so-called Gaia hypothesis, a theory of evolution that views the earth as a single organism with various feedback mechanisms to maintain conditions suitable for life. In SimEarth this means that as the heat from the sun increases 25%, as it has during the past few billion years, changes will automatically occur in factors like the rate of cloud formation to keep the surface temperature relatively stable. The feedback loops appear most valuable when they are turned off, as they were when I played in the "hard...