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...several party insiders say that Sen. Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia may also decide to try his luck in the primary, although such a run might only lay the groundwork for a vice-presidential nomination or a '96 run for president...
Grandmaison separates the pool into two separate tiers--a first tier of candidates such as Gore and Cuomo, who may have serious expectations in the election, and a second group composed of aspirants such as Rockefeller, Kerrey and Clinton, who are probably only aiming to lay the groundwork...
...general response of having all the freshmen in the Yard is to make that year special," Moses says. "The risk in making it special is that it becomes different from all the rest of the years here. Part of our job is to lay the groundwork for the next three years...
...researchers believe that enough good candidates now exist to warrant drastically narrowing the search and selecting the best and the most effective experimental vaccines for major trials in humans. Last month at a meeting of the Institute of Medicine in Washington, scientists and health officials began to lay the groundwork for trials in the U.S. and other nations. In April researchers from the World Health Organization (WHO) will begin visiting countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America to locate groups in which such studies might be conducted...
...rebuilding. Such tasks as putting out oil fires and restoring water and power to blasted buildings could cost more than $500 million during this period. As part of the effort, Kuwait awarded the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers $46 million to help assess the damage and lay the groundwork for reconstruction...