Word: tim
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...weeks ago, Vice President Al Gore was thrown for a loop on "Meet the Press." Host Tim Russert asked him whether he would postpone the execution of pregnant death row inmates until after they had given birth, and Gore, after some hemming and hawing, finally came up with an answer: "The principle of a woman's right to choose governs in that case." Gore didn't want to alienate his pro-choice constituency, so he just went on autopilot...
...With reporting by Tim Padgett/Miami and Eric Roston/New York
...little interest and so much skepticism has taken on such an aura of inevitability is a case study in how good bureaucratic ideas turn bad--and bad ideas stick around. "The only way we're not going to have the station," says Chris Mehl, spokesman for Indiana Representative Tim Roemer, "is if pieces fall...
...Lucie Blackman? Lucie is a pretty blond Englishwoman who disappeared one night from a Tokyo nightclub. British prime minister Tony Blair is among those concerned about the fate of the former British Airways flight attendant; on his way to Okinawa, Blair actually met with Lucie's dad, Tim, who is trying to put pressure on the Japanese government to step up efforts to find his 21-year-old daughter. This is a particularly embarrassing case because it involves one of the shadier sides of Tokyo life - the booming business in trafficking attractive Western women to Japanese businessmen willing...
...warm reception on Wall Street could quickly cool if, as AG Edwards analyst Tim Winter quips, "the bureaucrats come back to make sure utilities can't make any money." Those aren't idle fears. The regulation-averse, Republican-led Senate just passed legislation to create an industry-oversight committee--this isn't an election year, is it?--to handle disputes and ensure the reliability of electricity nationwide. More ominous, in California the outcry has been so intense that utility officials recently lowered the price cap on rates that generators can charge on the open market. While that may help ease...