Word: hosted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Young's associates came forward last week to clarify how the loan guarantee evolved. An overture for the guarantee came in mid-1994 at a dinner with Barbour as host for Young at Sam & Harry's, a Washington haunt popular with politicians. Barbour said the G.O.P. think tank would use the loan to pay back its start-up money to the R.N.C., which was then gearing up for the midterm election. Indeed, the think tank transferred $1.6 million to the R.N.C. three weeks before the triumphant G.O.P. takeover of Congress. Young received a taste of the victory in a meeting...
...million if they split now, but a source told the New York Times that if the union lasts one more year, she will get a portion of his net worth, estimated at between $450 million and $2.5 billion. No hard feelings, though. Marla apparently will still be the host of the Trump-owned Miss Universe Pageant in Miami...
...Crimson turn next to the weekend playoff series with the Tigers at O'Donnell Field for the Ivy title. The teams will play a Saturday doubleheader and a final game Sunday if necessary. The winner will host Patriot League champion Army in an NCAA play-in May 15th-16th...
...agents, and the 'Venerables,' a pair of aged columnists who 'had been out of step with every administration since Eisenhower's.' These geezers and other faded Washingtonians in 'Echo House' are more than welcomed. Just is a sharp-eyed observer and acerbic commentator, but he is also a bighearted host to all the has-beens and will-bes gathered in this roomy and inviting novel...
...following a plunge Tuesday in which Bre-X shares, once worth more than $200, closed at about 6 cents. At Tuesday's close, the company's market value was about $14 million, compared with its peak value of $4.5 billion last year. The bankruptcy will provide protection against a host of current and expected lawsuits against the company stemming from the gross overstatement of gold in its Busang mine on the island of Borneo. The company, which now faces a possible criminal investigation by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, said in a statement it wanted to show shareholders and creditors...