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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that out the hard way recently after telling the President that they supported his efforts to rescue the savings-and-loan industry. Sununu pulled out an ad the bankers were running trying to scare depositors away from S & Ls and into banks. "I take it, then," he growled, "this sort of thing will stop." When a utility boss complained that Bush's clean-air proposals would drive up his electricity rates, Sununu retorted that the utility already enjoyed rates below the national average, which the Government subsidized...
...Altman and Bonwit Teller are not the sort of stores that stiff their suppliers. But since the spring, several fashion houses have withheld shipments to the swank Manhattan department stores because of late payments. The stores have been caught in the enormous debt problems of their current owner, Australia's Hooker Corp., which is controlled by investor George Herscu. Last week Hooker's U.S. holding company sought protection from its creditors under Chapter 11 bankruptcy...
...hear his top advisers argue them out. Bush's chief domestic policy adviser, Roger Porter, wrote a book extolling the virtues of the system after watching it work in the Ford Administration. Though multiple advocacy is time consuming and difficult to manage, Bush has peopled his Cabinet with the sort of collegial generalists necessary for success. The President apparently sees little irony in the fact that he campaigned against Michael Dukakis' "Harvard boutique" of advisers but now has erected a system staffed by his share of Kennedy School alumni: "I've known pretty well how I want to reach decisions...
Still, the productions were mostly brief and small-scale, the livelihood far from lavish. "The least hint of the starving-artist routine," he recalls, "did not behoove my immigrant legacy of belief in education and upward mobility." In 1983, when he was 26, Hwang suffered the sort of crisis of conscience that comes to many people whose success was quick and easy. "I lost belief in my subject matter -- I dismissed it as 'Orientalia for the intelligentsia' -- and virtually stopped writing for two years. I thought seriously about going to law school." After the anxiety passed, Hwang tried to broaden...
...Then the clan moved into a "haunted house" in Manila. Legend had it that someone from each family who lived there would die in the place. "No one did in our family, which was attributed by my relatives to their fundamentalist Christianity. My mother's grandmother was a sort of exorcist, casting out demons. To say that 'so-and-so was dead until we prayed for him and he came back to life' was perfectly ordinary dinner-table conversation...