Word: pressing
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...animals like nobody's business. They did nothing to hide their gambling habit during the Games, which was fine with me. To the great pleasure of my ink-stained-wretch brethren and the chagrin if not horror of the International Olympic Committee, the Sydney organizing committee's welcoming press party was - get this! - an afternoon at Rosehill Racecourse. "Watch, bet and enjoy Australia's favourite sporting pastime," read the invite. "A selection of Australian food and drinks will be served all afternoon." A splendid time was had by all, even those who lost dough by placing a sentimental five spot...
...course or crashed into one another; doping news played on and on. No previous Olympics had seen such a rash of 11th-hour banishments and "withdrawals"; China trimmed its roster by no fewer than 27 athletes who might have proved an embarrassment by testing positive in Sydney. Every Olympic press conference I went to opened with a drug question or six, and finally Aussie swim coach Don Talbot had had his fill. "I don't know if it's cast a cloud over these Games," he barked. "Look, you keep trying to bring the drug issue...
...warmed a bit to his task. He occasionally comes to the back of the plane to chat with reporters, but he mumbles so much that the press had to set up an amplification device in the aisle to try to catch what he's saying. He joined in singing "Happy Birthday" to his press secretary, Juleanna Glover Weiss, and was ready with a penknife when she couldn't open Cheney's gift to her, a CD by Peter Gabriel featuring the song "Big Time," a nicely self-deprecating gesture. This gave his wife, temperamentally a dead ringer for Dr. Laura...
...political reasons in the middle of a tight election that she made it clear to the White House that she did not want anyone there at all involved in the process at all. Message: Butt out. "She's smart," says a key HHS official. "She knew the press was going to ask whether any of this was done for political reasons, and she wanted to answer to be no." Shalala issued strict instructions to her staff to respond to any White House queries with a single sentence: "The FDA is going through its usual approval process...
...desk while the Tories attacked him, and then, with exaggerated mouth movements, he responded almost silently: "Fuck off." In fury, the Tories appealed to the Speaker to discipline the prime minister, but the Speaker managed not to hear the insult. Trudeau did it again, turning slightly so the press gallery could be sure. He was not called to order. As in most things, he got away with...