Word: pressing
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...foot dragging paid tactical benefits. In time, relations between Starr's office and the Justice Department deteriorated. Unknown to the press or public, Starr at one point came within hours of possibly losing his job--and being declared in contempt of court--because he refused to obey a secret court order to answer questions by Clinton's lawyers about grand jury leaks. Meanwhile, those lawyers had entered into "joint defense agreements" with grand jury witnesses whose attorneys had been recommended by the White House. This sharing of information gave Clinton's defenders a direct window into the supposedly secret grand...
...Arnault craves control above all else. Dubbed the "Wolf in Cashmere" by the European press, he is much more than a corporate raider of the runways. He is also the first reality-based fashionista, who pays as much attention to manufacturing costs as to designer trends. It is fitting: Arnault conducts business amid a backdrop of gallons of perfume rather than racks of couture outfits, because fashion is a sinkhole. You don't make profits from the glitzy couture collections, no matter how many lunching ladies and OPEC princesses visit your atelier...
...ensure that he brings in the buzz that drives the biz, Arnault hires edgy, critically acclaimed young designers who never made a centime of profit when they ran their own houses but who excel at engaging, exciting and infuriating the fashion press. Arnault points to John Galliano's spring collections for Dior this year as typical of what he wants from his designers. "His ideas are not meant to be worn," Arnault says of the avant-gardish collection of bag-lady-style ball gowns, "but the ideas descend down to pret-a-porter and to everything in the line...
...after they heard that an assistant police chief was sitting in the passenger seat of the INS van that took Elian away. In the minutes after the raid, Mayor Joe Carollo had made it plain that he had no advance warning whatever. Late in the afternoon he gave a press conference and denounced the government's actions. "What they did was a crime," he said. "These are atheists. They don't believe...
...recent years. In a federal appeals panel ruling last week that no one could remove Elian from the U.S. before a May 11 hearing in the same court, the judges appeared to portend a new issue, seeming to claim an unexpected new right for six-year-olds to press their cases...