Robert Hormats, a Goldman Sachs vice chairman turned senior State Department hand, spent four days with business leaders in the Bay Area this month, talking up his department's "very proactive" mandate to support U.S. job-creating trade and export activities, focusing on a Bay Area sweet spot - East Asia. |
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Margaret Bassett passed away August 21, 2011. She was a treasured member of the Opednews.com editorial team for four years.
Margaret Bassett--OEN editor--is an 89-year old, currently living in senior housing, with a lifelong interest in political philosophy. Bachelors from State University of Iowa (1944) and Masters from Roosevelt University (1975) help to unravel important requirements for modern communication. Early introduction to computer science (1966) trumps them. It's payback time. She's been "entitled" so long she hopes to find some good coming off the keyboard into the lives of those who come after her.