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...Governor. As state documents indicate, though, Schaffer was as tough on Madison as the federal regulators who had the real power to shut the thrift down. "I may not be Beverly's biggest fan, but she's getting a bad rap from the media," says Lee Thalheimer, her predecessor and a Republican appointee. "I don't think anyone can influence Beverly Bassett...
...gathering at the company's plant in Dearborn, Michigan, almost as an afterthought to the introduction of Ford's new Mustang. At General Motors 11 months earlier, affable, unassuming Jack Smith landed just as unceremoniously in that company's top job. Following the virulent boardroom coup that ousted his predecessor, chairman Robert Stempel, and most of his top executives, Smith ascended with no ritual at all, and settled down to business at the world's largest industrial corporation so quietly that he has seldom been seen or heard from in public since. At Chrysler, Bob Eaton owed...
...what about economic liberty? Individuals, and businesses too small to effectively extort these payments subsidize the border-hoppers with higher taxes. Gov. Jim Edgar of Illinois, who is stuck dealing with more than 300 million dollars in incentives doled out to a handful of companies by his predecessor, has come to realize this rub: "Once you get something, you might have given up so much it wasn't worth getting [the project], and everyone else that pays taxes is frustrated," Edgar told the National Journal last April...
This is a role that Clinton's predecessor rejected, at the expense of the nation and himself. And it is a role that will enable President Clinton to emerge as a promising leader. For a man whose presidency is consistently subjected to week-by-week assessments, these have not been a bad couple of weeks...
When confronted by intransigent nations, the U.S. government has made accommodation the name of the game. Under a president who accused his predecessor of coddling the Chinese, it has renewed China's most-favored-nation trading status and raised only a minor ruckus over alleged arms shipments to Pakistan. More recently, the U.S. has responded to North Korea's alarming refusal to comply with the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty by dangling various rewards--from an end to U.S.-South Korean military exercises to steps toward diplomatic recognition--in exchange for cooperation...