ECONOMIC CONDITIONS: World Trade Center bombing
REGULATORY CHANGES: FASB 123 first draft – would have required the expensing of employee stock options
PRESIDENT: Bill Clinton
SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY: Nicholas F Brady
SECRETARY OF STATE: Warren Christopher
SECRETARY OF DEFENSE: Leslie Aspin Jr.
SUPREME COURT: Ruth Bader Ginsburg (’93-Present)
CONGRESS: Speaker, Tom Foley (D)
FEDERAL RESERVE CHAIRMAN: Alan Greenspan
NY FEDERAL RESERVE: William J McDonough, President
HIGHEST PAID CEO: Thomas Frist – HCA Hospital Corp
$127,067,000
Inflation adjusted: $182,585,000
BUSINESS ROUNDTABLE: John Ong, CEO & Chairman of BF Goodrich, Chairman
COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS: Peter Peterson, Chairman
KEY BANK MERGERS: First Bank System and Colorado National; Bank of Boston and South Shore, Mechanics, First Agricultural; First Union and Dominion; First Union and First American; NationsBank and Maryland National; NationsBank and American Security;
KEY NON-BANK MERGERS: Mattel and Fisher Price Toys; New York Times and Boston Globe; AT&T and McCaw Cellular; Daimler Benz and Fokker
CORPORATE GOVERNANCE: