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...just partisan zeal that sold tickets. Vice President Dick Cheney and his energy task force had been rewriting the industry's rules-and his proposals were unveiled just five days before the dinner. Three G.O.P. fund raisers told TIME that the R.N.C. consciously targeted the energy sector. "Whoever has the hot issue is going to be the most responsive," one money man says. "Energy was the talk of the town." R.N.C. deputy chairman Jack Oliver denies targeting any group, and Cheney's spokesman denies any link between access and contributions...
...scholars will each receive a $30,000 merit-based grant to assist them in paying for graduate or professional school in preparation for careers in government, the non-profit sector or public service...
...INVENTORY MANAGEMENT Factories led the economy down, but recent reports show the sector growing for the first time in 18 months. New-economy thinkers once believed technology-driven controls could so precisely measure supplies that there would never again be a boom-bust cycle. Timely information and fast delivery would prevent managers from overstocking. The problem is that all the inventory information in the world can't help a company with a poor forecast. Tech firms built fiber, microprocessors and servers as if clients would never get enough, and the overbuilding led to a bust...
...Private-sector jobs telecom giant Verizon will eliminate this year...
...Services not to sign an exclusive contract with PepsiCo, that company pulled out of Burma in 1996— a major victory in the free Burma movement. I know this pales in comparison to, say, providing concerts on-campus, but some of us reactionaries still believe that the private sector, rather than government, should be responsible for entertainment...