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- BUSINESS, Page 64Business NotesTHE CABINET. . . And Barbara Makes Three
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- George Bush appears to be bringing his Cabinet into the
- 1990s: he's adding women. The Cabinet has two: Lynn Martin
- (Labor) and Carla Hills (Trade). Last week Bush nominated a
- third, management consultant Barbara Franklin, 51, to take over
- the Commerce Department from Robert Mosbacher, who is leaving to
- run the President's re-election campaign.
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- If confirmed, Franklin will bring a power-packed resume to
- the position. The Harvard M.B.A. served as a headhunter in the
- Nixon Administration, a vice chairman of the Consumer Product
- Safety Commission from 1973 to '79, and is a director of seven
- corporations, among them Aetna, Dow Chemical and Westinghouse.
- A savvy Republican fund raiser, Franklin co-chaired a dinner
- last fall that gathered $1.2 million for Bush's 1992 campaign.
- Her appointment is also a campaign tactic to boost Bush's
- support among women, 54% of the voters.
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