Word: pressing
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Bush has a 388-vote lead in Florida according to the latest results of an unofficial tally conducted by the Associated Press, but U.S. District Judge Donald Middlebrooks' ruling clears the way, at least temporarily, for the hand recounts to continue...
...Bush did not answer a question on a juror questionnaire about whether he had been involved in a previous criminal case. The Bush campaign says the form was filled out by an aide, who also did not answer several other questions. And there were suggestions in some press reports that when Bush got a new driver's license, with the number 00000005, after he became Governor in 1995, his intent might have been to hide the trail to his D.U.I. conviction. But Bush spokesman Dan Bartlett insisted that low-digit VIP license numbers are a tradition among Texas elected officials...
...Pearson PLC in the RTL Group, the company owns syndication rights to a vast universe of television programs, including Baywatch and The Price Is Right. And Bertelsmann also does a multibillion-dollar global business in printing and publishing services; the magazine in your hand may have come off a press at one of its 18 global plants...
...fashionable to be a press-shy celebrity--to bemoan the loss of one's privacy while simultaneously courting the cameras at movie premieres and fashion shows. But Sade comes by her press shyness honestly. On the Chris Rock Show, she just sings her song and never says a word. Like a comet making its celestial rounds, she appears in the star-studded celebrity heavens infrequently and almost only when she has new songs to perform...
...public service, they are also a venerable form of donor courtship. It's fair to say that the trustees of the High wouldn't mind if Sir Elton were to will them every bit of this collection someday. (They must hold their breath every time he tells the press how much he would love to see a photography museum established in London.) But if they covet his holdings, who can blame them? This is a collection few museums could just go out and buy. Auction and gallery prices for photos have been rising steeply, in part because of buyers like...