Word: openly
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Here's how beenz work. First, you open a free account with Beenz.com a New York City-based outfit that's been in business since 1998. You then earn beenz by visiting certain websites that give beenz away as a means of rewarding customer loyalty, in exchange for personal information or as a reward to surfers for just showing up. Hence the name--"You get something just for having 'been' there," explains Beenz.com chairman and CEO Philip Letts. Among the sites that offer this virtual token of their esteem are Excite UK, Dash, FortuneCity and the Motley Fool. Then, once...
Naishtat and other Democrats believe that the harshness of Bush's positions sprang from his concern for winning Republican presidential primaries. "He did not want to leave himself open to attack on the right by appearing lenient," says Naishtat. House Democrat Glen Maxey remembers a day at the end of the 1999 session when Bush was pumping hard for his full-family-sanctions bill. Maxey and Naishtat were in the members' lounge when Bush aide Terral Smith walked in. "He sat down between us and said, 'We need y'all to have a meeting today to vote'" on the bill...
...early 1997, Bush's team held a series of private meetings with oil-, gas- and chemical-industry leaders and invited them to draft a plan for a voluntary emission-reduction program. The secret meetings came to light last summer, when an Austin activist named Peter Altman filed an open-records request. Despite cries from environmentalists, the plan passed the legislature, in only slightly tougher form, last year. Bush says he is proud he got the grandfathered plants to the table, and to his credit, no Governor before him did as much. (He also backed a bill that forces electric utilities...
According to U.S. diplomats, Kim finally realized that with his cold war benefactors gone, he has no choice but to open up to other countries for help in rescuing his devastated economy. Does this mean Pyongyang will curb its missile program, as the U.S. wants? Not yet. A senior North Korean delegation will visit Washington next month, and the missile negotiations "will be difficult," says a Clinton aide...
...minorities' involvement in recruiting programs. But Bush's plan, while ostensibly democratic, raises the ire of some black and minority leaders, in part because it's unclear how the 'diversity outreach' and '20 percent' plan will actually work. "The 20 percent rule is an attempt to be inclusive, to open doors without outwardly using race as a guideline," says Cohen. "But a lot of people believe racism still exists - and that the legacy of discrimination has not been erased." Many Floridians also wonder whether the 20 percent rule will be entirely fair. "The person in the 25th percentile...