Word: setting
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...request, seeking a delay in imposing restrictions on investments by savings institutions. He also attended the two meetings with the other Senators. But when he learned at the second session that criminal charges were being considered against Lincoln, he cut off most dealings with Keating. A notable exception: he set up a meeting % between Lincoln's chief and then House Speaker Jim Wright. Asked Bennett...
...much harder than members of Congress to address their pitches to specific audiences. To sing their siren songs effectively, they rely on a bewildering variety of list compilers, list brokers and list managers. In short, the mail-order industry is teeming with precisely the sort of people Montgomery Ward set out to eliminate: middlemen...
When you finally approached me only hours before accepting this membership, you had already attended all the punching events. You said you had a few drinks, schmoozed a little, smoked a stogie or two. Then you wanted me to respond. You wanted me to set up some straw-man arguments about why final clubs are problematic and you wanted to knock them down. Who was I to stop...
...have the right to join this club. Clubbies never let us forget that. But don't think the exercise of this right doesn't set up barriers between us--between what is your space and what is not mine. When you're sitting in your club, will you act the same way you act when we're sitting in my room? I hope you will be as true to me as I have now been...
...changes were set in motion last April, when pro-democracy protests toppled the King's handpicked government and he was forced to lift a ban on political parties. An interim coalition took office with a mandate to write a new constitution and hold elections for parliament within a year...