Word: armes
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There are some press outside. I grab [Andrew] Kirtzman [a reporter for NY1, a local cable-news station] by the arm and say, "We're taking you with us." Some of them look a little stunned. I begin holding an ad-hoc walking press conference in which I tell people to remain calm and go straight north...
...President Dick Cheney, which deliberated in secret and made policy proposals seen as friendly to industry. Representative Henry Waxman, a California Democrat, has just written Cheney to ask whether his panel was "influenced by unreliable data or opinions provided by Enron." Meanwhile, the General Accounting Office, a nonpartisan investigative arm of Congress, is pressing its long-standing (and so far denied) request for task-force records. Comptroller General David Walker, who runs the GAO, tells TIME that pending energy legislation and congressional inquiries into Enron make it imperative that Cheney produce the material. If Cheney refuses to budge, Walker says...
...ahead to negotiate foreign-trade deals that could be worth tens of billions of dollars in extra growth for the U.S. and the global economy. But for Capitol Hill watchers, the victory (twice denied to President Clinton) was at least as notable for the White House's impressive arm twisting: several crucial votes came from G.O.P. Representatives from states that have been especially hard hit by trade competition. One key pro-Bush vote, for example, came from North Carolina Republican Robin Hayes, who regularly opposes trade bills but switched sides after the White House promised to protect his state...
...their rope, from professional wrestlers to martial-arts experts. Despite less-than-Amazonian builds, the Ladies won the world tug-of-war championship in 1999. Their secret: arduous training and unflinching team resolve. Three nights a week, the Ladies yank against a homemade 650-kg weight, building arm muscles and samurai spirit. They dropped this year's World Games to Spain, but the Ladies will be ready for 2002, to be held in Ireland. "It will be a chance for revenge," says team captain Yachiyo Hata. Japanese companies may be dropping like flies, but for the Ladies from Oita, failure...
...complex multilayered leadership structures of Hamas's military arm make it difficult for either the Israelis or Arafat to destroy the organization by eliminating its leadership. But the source of Arafat's difficulty is political - Hamas is now believed to directly represent the political views of one in three Palestinians, and its actions carry the support of an overwhelming majority. Opinion polls find upward of 70 percent of Palestinians currently favor suicide bombings and oppose a cease-fire. Compounding Arafat's crisis is the fact that most of the rank-and-file of his own Fatah and security services regard...