Word: summering
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...small rise overlooking the undulant comfort of upper Westchester's gentrified farmland. He lives on airplanes that take him to trials all over the country, bring him home for a son's football game or a daughter's school event and then shuttle him back again. He travels each summer on cross-country Jeep trips with some of his six kids, or on available weekends to Vegas or Atlantic City with his wife, some friends, maybe some of his older kids, to hold down his end of a craps table...
Until last summer, Andy Card didn't even have a passport to Austin. Though he had served President Bush off and on for 20 years, he had never been close to the son and even remarked privately that he felt left out as the Bush Restoration unfurled last spring. Then, out of the blue, came the call: Would you like to run the Republican National Convention? Card said yes, but wondered, Who had played matchmaker? Sure enough, George Herbert Walker Bush had quietly nudged his son into giving Card, 53, a tryout. Before long, Dubya liked what he saw. Both...
...Houses, but decisions fall on the basis of what candidates themselves have chosen to submit. However attractive it might be to have recommendations and/or interviews in the review process, the late start of Harvard's academic year makes this logistically unfeasible without moving the process back into the summer or spring...
...This summer Browder was back at it, heading up a very public fight against another Russian titan. This time his target was Anatoli Chubais, chief of Russia's electricity giant, Unified Energy Systems. Chubais had proposed to restructure UES by selling off regional subsidiaries at their value at the time. The plan, Browder claims, amounted to "asset stripping, pure and simple." He rallied 45 Western investors, who owned 15% of the company, to call for Chubais' ouster and demand that the UES charter be rewritten to their tastes...
...most dismaying thing I learned in the course of The Plant's run (a run that's not over but only lying dormant until next summer) is that there's a profound crevasse of misunderstanding between the smart guys of the business world and the talented goofballs who make entertainment in this increasingly entertainment-hungry society. Publishers, investors and media watchers see a venture like The Plant and say, "Ah, King is moving into e-commerce!" in the tones of 1940s newscasters relaying the news that Hitler is moving east. King, in the meantime, is thinking something along the lines...