Word: pressing
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Jordan's choice for leader of the free world is Bill Bradley, himself another former basketball star. In desperate need of positive press after successive losses in Iowa and New Hampshire, Bradley's campaign unveiled a 30-second advertisement featuring Jordan explaining his support for Bradley. Jordan joins the pantheon of NBA stars who have endorsed their former colleague. In another spot, Bill Russell encouraged voters to support Bradley in the Iowa caucuses, the embodiment of the slogan "Another Celtic Fan for Bill Bradley...
...Conservative control of the Majlis, Iran's 270-seat legislature, has helped the clerics to stymie President Khatami's efforts to press through his reform agenda of strengthening the rule of law, providing greater freedom of speech and deepening Iran's Islamic version of democracy. "By most accounts reformers will capture the assembly from Islamic conservatives and hard-liners," says TIME Middle East bureau chief Scott MacLeod from Tehran. "But this being Iran, a victory for the reformers may not be precisely what it seems. While there's consensus on greater opening up to the West and economic reforms, there...
Nearly a year after the shooting, unease surrounding the case had barely abated, and the decision was made to move the trial upstate in an attempt to escape the blinding spotlight of New York City's criminal courts. So the press corps and New York City court officers moved to the state capital, Albany, filling area hotels - and imagining themselves facing another O.J.-length trial...
Penn first-year Anna R. Roberts. "It's not easy sitting in a small room all day, not washing your hair for five days, making sure to sound good for the press and dealing with a pissed-off administration...
...really have to press your professors, the administration, all the way from Rudenstine on down," he said. "You guys [have] got to get pissed off. It's the students who really carry the torch...