Word: annelies
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...Reported by Ann Blackman/Salisbury and Tom Curry/New York
...Baby Bells must have competition for local telephone business before being able to sell long-distance service. Later long-distance companies gave $160,000 to the Democrats after President Clinton threatened that he would veto the legislation. Around the time a compromise was struck, money flowed to both parties. Ann McBride, president of Common Cause, says the result of such giving is that "the integrity of the legislative process is destroyed...
...point in 1991, according to the indictment, Symington listed his net worth at $4 million for one lender; six weeks later, he told another lender he was $4.1 million in debt. Symington's lawyer, John Dowd, calls these "unintended errors and omissions.'' To confuse the issue, Symington's wife Ann Olin Pritzlaff Symington has her own inherited wealth. "When it was convenient, they called it Ann's separate property, and when it was convenient, they called it Fife's," says Manning...
...having another child is not a surprise [Nation, June 3]. It is simply an election-year ploy to boost their images, to make voters forget Bill's tainted past and Hillary's Whitewater woes. Maybe their Hollywood friends believe what they say, but I doubt the American people will. ANN FINN Ridgefield, Connecticut Via E-mail...
...institutions in 1992, the NCES found that U.S. students' literacy skills rank second only to those of Finnish school children. Why the switch? Prior studies failed to account for the more demanding curriculum in U.S. schools. "The report shows how high standards are for American kids," says TIME's Ann Blackman. "Our teachers require the kids to jump through more hoops than they do in other countries." In a separate finding that black children and those whose parents failed to complete high school lag behind other U.S. students, the new study may point policy-makers toward a focus...