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...Ackermann is under fire for his role at Mannesmann, but he’s won praise for his running of Deutsche Bank pro • Took a hatchet to bloated costs • Revamped board structure • Dumped stake in dozens of firms con • Clashed with German tradition • Not as profitable as key rivals • Faces possible five-year prison term if convicted...
...Clark, who entered the race a mere nine days ago, the debate marked one of his first opportunities to stake out stances on the issues. And the former NATO commander—a registered Republican until recently who voted for Nixon and Reagan—was immediately pressed to defend his Democratic credentials...
...responded. “I’ve done more for health insurance, Dick Gephardt, frankly, than you ever have, because I’ve delivered it to a lot of seniors and a lot of young people—and I’ll stake my record on health insurance against anybody up here...
Rather, the judges reasoned that the ballot machines to be used by six counties would not cause “hardship that outweighs the stake of the State of California and its citizens in having this election go forward as planned and as required by the California Constitution...
...What’s at stake in this election is democracy,” he said. “Either we take action now and come together to restore a politics of participation and a politics of the people, or we allow the Washington insiders and the special interests to continue to make the back room deals that are destroying people’s faith in our government...