Word: using
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...welcome Hillary Rodham Clinton and Rick Lazio's Sept. 23 agreement to refrain from the use of unregulated "soft-money" contributions to their Senate campaigns in New York. No candidate would voluntarily refrain from using such contributions without a belief that the public wants big money out of politics. The agreement should therefore embolden politicians to call for the elimination of soft money in their campaigns as part of campaign finance reform. The thorny issues that still threaten the New York agreement, however, will pose equally strong barriers to reform at the national level...
...Games wind down, that there will probably be more drug violations. Even sadder, there will be medal winners who will never be caught, perhaps denying a "clean" athlete of a medal. It is unfortunate that every young swimmer, runner or rower should be suspected of drug use when he wins a medal, but it is a fair price to pay for perhaps one day having "the cleanest Games ever...
...country that is both inaccurate and ill-informed. To most Americans, India is a nation embroiled in a nuclear arms race with Pakistan and an ethnic battle over the state of Kashmir. The victim of news analyses too watered down and politicized to be of any real informational use, the depth and complexity of the country's social, political and economic condition are lost to the American public at large...
...suit claims that while providing economic and legal advice for the development of Russian capital markets, the individual defendants violated conflict-of-interest rules prohibiting them from investing in the Russian economy. The suit claims they even diverted U.S. government resources for their own use...
...unpleasant things popped up for Gore: a touch of emotional tone-deafness - gunplay isn't "mischief," Al - a bit of the pandering square, and those weird pulsing "mm" sounds he makes when, presumably, he's trying to simultaneously listen to the question and figure out which answer to use. He thinks while he talks, too - when a specific question was asked, Gore would reel off the platform line for a while before risking a direct response, if he risked one at all. He has a nervous sort of snort-laugh that pops out at inappropriate times, and he apparently thinks...