Word: pressing
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...President Charles M. Vest said in a press release the campus was "heartsick" about Shin's death...
...million dollar computer system to centralize finances, faculty members should be, at the very least, consulted, if not actively involved in the decision-making process. Instead, the FAS committee's report noted, "Major decisions involving the commitment of substantial resources...are sometimes first discovered by faculty from the local press." Some FAS members have even suggested that the Faculty has not received proper returns from funds deposited in central administration accounts...
...better because he's nearsighted and didn't always wear his contact lenses. Then came the gunshots. So quick, not loud at all. The President was shoved into his limousine. A young blond man with wide, unblinking eyes was wrestled to the ground, the gun still in his hand. Press secretary James Brady lay in a pool of blood, his skull shattered. Secret Service agent Timothy McCarthy, who had jumped into the path of the bullets, lay sprawled on the cement, blood pouring from a wound in his abdomen...
...turn out to be the most prominent figure in the upcoming campaign. Mori and his party colleagues can be expected to play shamelessly on the stricken leader's image to generate a sympathy vote while making critics of the Obuchi government's record look insensitive. In his first press conference last week, Mori repeatedly invoked the name of his longtime friend and former Waseda University classmate. "I feel like I can hear the voice of Prime Minister Obuchi from his bed, saying 'I trust you, so do it well,'" Mori told reporters...
...have not been charged with any crime. Yet they were the primary targets of the graveyard stakeout. And several investigators still consider them the likeliest suspects in the unsolved killing, as Detective Thomas makes clear in his new book, JonBenet: Inside the Ramsey Murder Investigation, St. Martin's Press, written with Don Davis, a former wire-service reporter. Thomas and Davis recount the tortuous wanderings of police in their search for the child's killer--an exercise that in this book appears to be less an open-ended investigation than an effort to confirm early suspicions that the Ramseys were...