about "partly because of "

'Bush's Past and Leadership Skills at Issue Partly Because of How He 'Won'
by Matt Miller

Two mysteries remain on President Bush's past business practices. Together they raise an even deeper question that will haunt us until November 2004.
The first mystery is: Who is the unnamed "institutional investor" who came out of nowhere, unbidden, to buy Bush's shares of Harken Energy in 1990?
Recall that Bush sold his Harken stock for $848,560 on June 22 of that year. This gave Bush the cash to repay the loan he took out to invest in the Texas Rangers.
What we know so far is that a Los Angeles broker named Ralph Smith cold-called a few Harken shareholders, saying he had an institutional client who wanted to buy a big block of shares. The buyer has never been named, and Smith says he has an obligation of confidentiality to his client. Smith also insists it was a standard trade and the buyer has nothing to do with Bush or his family.
.....................................
link:http://www.commondreams.org/views02/0720-03.htm


Life Expectancy Gap Between Blacks, Whites Narrowing, Partly Because Of Declining Death Rates From Various Diseases, Study Finds
Link:http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=65580