Word: pairing
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Thus will the six or seven football fans passionate about this year's presidential election between George W. Bush and Al Gore will get to watch... Colin Powell and Bill Clinton. That high-powered pair - one who'd probably love to run again but can't and one who'd probably win but won't run - are the marquee names for their respective conventions' opening nights, which should tell you something right there. Powell and Clinton will then recede into the mists so that their respective substitutes, Bush and Gore, can dominate the subsequent coverage...
Scruggs is confident he can change that--despite a pair of recent Supreme Court decisions that will make it more difficult to collect damages from managed-care companies. He and David Boies, who represented the U.S. Justice Department in its humbling of Microsoft, are leading a syndicate of seasoned plaintiffs' lawyers that is suing seven of the nation's largest HMOs. The lawsuits, which were recently combined before a single federal judge in Miami, allege that the HMOs engage in what Scruggs calls "garden-variety consumer fraud." He argues that HMOs routinely recruit customers by touting their concern for patient...
...tried to get Blair Witch-y with sites like Time Warner's Entertaindom www.entertaindom.com) whose flashy but lame Hollywood spoofs prove the rule that online humor is funny in inverse proportion to its budget. And even in the Web's grownup days of corporate sites and e-commerce, a pair of scrappy newcomers is continuing the tradition of wicked pop-culture satire online...
...most popular attractions during the week did not even participate in the parade. The aircraft carrier USS John F. Kennedy arrived on Monday morning and was open to the public later in the week. The carrier was escorted by a pair of cruisers, the USS Hue City and the USS Vicksburg and by a destroyer, the USS McFaul...
...idealism though, he's not naive. He knows the value of modern public relations. He decorates his barges with the logos of sponsors, from Cargill to O'Douls, and maintains a cutting-edge website, www.cleanrivers.com From his sleeping bag on the houseboat, he uses a pair of cell phones to drum up funds and give interviews to journalists. He's made some influential friends as well, including Robert Kennedy Jr., whose own conservation group, Riverkeeper, Pregracke admires and draws inspiration from...