Word: towering
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...member PFIAB will be led by John Tower, a former Senate Armed Services Committee chairman. "But Tower is one of the boss's loyalty appointments," says a Bush aide. "After John's drinking problem cost him the Defense portfolio, the President felt he owed him." Four of the other members are among the nation's most competent analysts of scientific information. The only first-rate geopolitical thinker is the sixth member, Foreign Affairs editor William Hyland -- and that's the problem. Concedes PFIAB member John Deutch, an M.I.T. energy expert: "Our strengths run to the technical...
...26th floor of the gilded Trump Tower in Manhattan, the brash developer and his lieutenants barricaded themselves behind closed doors last week to meet with a phalanx of worried lenders. Officials from four major banks, who have extended an estimated $2 billion to the developer, are negotiating with Trump to reduce his debt load by stripping down his empire. Investors who hold more than $1 billion in junk bonds that Trump issued to finance his three casinos have seen the market value of their securities plunge by as much as 50%. Bondholders of two Atlantic City properties, the Trump Castle...
...says this in his 77th-floor office in the world's tallest building, Chicago's Sears Tower, where he is a partner in the 300-awyer firm of Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal. This well-appointed, bustling termitarium does not seem the natural habitat of a writer, but Turow blends in easily. He carries a suitably stuffed and scuffed briefcase; he wears dark suits and serious, lace-up lawyer shoes. (Occasionally some modest stripes on his white shirts will betray a whiff of bohemian raffishness.) His accent in no way distinguishes his speech from that heard in the hallways or elevators...
When senior writer Paul Gray sat down with Scott Turow in his law office in Chicago's Sears Tower, Gray found the best-selling novelist friendly but also rather circumspect. "He is, after all, an attorney," says Gray. "He measures his words carefully." But when the venue shifted to the comfortable writing den in Turow's home, half-an-hour's train ride away, conversation loosened up. "When we talked about literature, the enthusiasm bubbled up," says Gray. "Turow gets extremely animated when he talks about writers. It was like a college session, with two instructors getting together over...
...ivory tower and the real world have traditionally had a cozy relationship at Harvard Medical School...