Word: support
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...office after a couple decades of dedicated but not necessarily distinguished service. "I have committed 13 years to my company," says Hou Yunfu, 35, an engineer whose ceibs tuition is paid by China National Petroleum Corp.'s Daqing Geophysics Institute. "It's good that they are now willing to support me, even if it's 10 years later than most people get their M.B.A.s...
Then Tom Gonzales, 55, founder of Commerce One, an e-commerce support-services firm, took over as CEO and immediately rejiggered the management structure. "I had to insist this wasn't a fraternity," Gonzales says. "It was a company." He called in a management consultant to do the company's strategic planning so employees could focus on their technical work. Today StreetFusion, with solid backing from venture-capital firm Iceberg Ventures, has 100 employees and revenues in the tens of millions...
...made for great TV. There was Maxine Waters, an outspoken member of the congressional Black Caucus, live on CNN defending the Clinton Administration's efforts to return Elian Gonzalez to his father in Cuba. Suddenly, on air, Waters learned that Al Gore had come out in support of the Cuban exiles who are trying to keep Elian in Miami. Waters exploded, saying she would "rethink" her endorsement of the Vice President. The next morning, Gore phoned Waters to make peace. It seemed to help. "He apologized profusely," she recalled. "We disagree, but I think he's sincere...
With these two men in key positions, the TVA soon became a fount of largesse for other Gore supporters and advisers. Within weeks of Crowell's and Hayes' swearing in, the TVA hired Washington lobbyist Peter Knight, who had run Gore's House and Senate offices for years and helped direct his 1988 presidential bid. It is questionable how badly Knight was needed. The TVA already had four in-house lobbyists, as well as plenty of Congressmen from its seven-state service region, fighting for its interests. It also had a Vice President who hardly needed coaxing to support...
...visions can seem incredible. The area around the Israeli occupation zone is a no-man's-land of mines, barbed wire and abandoned villages. But it is in that desolate and hilly country that Hizballah has begun its transformation. Shunning outward extremism for the sake of attracting the broadest support among its mainly Shi'ite constituency, it now holds nine seats in the Lebanese parliament. It dominates scores of municipal councils. And, using millions of dollars given by Iran and donations collected from Lebanese, Hizballah has won support by opening hospitals, health clinics and dozens of private schools...