Word: pressing
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...find it all smiles in her new job. There's a long line of Senators senior to her who want seats on Finance and Appropriations, so she may have to wait for those plums. She may bump hulls with CHARLES SCHUMER, New York's senior Senator, an aggressive press hound back home. She's received a mixed welcome from Republican Senators, who remember her haughty attitude when she was in charge of trying to get health-care reform through Congress. Majority leader TRENT LOTT huffed that she'll be "one of 100, and we won't let her forget...
...late 1997 he took on Vladimir Potanin, at the time Russia's top banker. Potanin had offered a closed bond issue for Sidanko, a major oil company that was one of his pet properties, to insiders of his own choosing. Browder cried foul and adroitly used the Western press to plead his case that the new shares arising from the bond issue would dilute minority shareholders' stakes. In the end, Russia's Federal Securities Commission canceled the issue...
...press conference, Barak told Israelis there was no alternative to the kind of negotiated settlement with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat that he nearly concluded at Camp David last July. Though Israelis have lost all faith in Arafat, Barak is gambling that they won't want to turn their backs entirely on the prospect of a peace deal. A vote for Sharon, Barak's campaign will say, means just that...
...Dirty Bastard is incarcerated b) Syphilis rates are falling c) Scabies is getting all the press d) The clap-on, clap-off device really does work...
...real test of The Plant's marketplace viability may come in late December and January, when Philtrum Press--my publishing company, which has offered books at odd intervals for almost 20 years--will e-market all six parts (The Plant, Book One: The Rise of Zenith) for $7, about the price of a paperback. And for that, my friend, you'll need your credit card...