Word: bidness
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Then, in 1996, she took time off to campaign with her husband during his bid for the presidency. During the Republican National Convention, Dole took to the floor like a talk show host, winning accolades for her performance...
...police brutality case that shocked New York City -- and threatened to complicate Mayor Rudolph Giuliani?s bid for national office -- has come to a close with another major conviction. On Tuesday, a jury found officer Charles Schwarz guilty of beating and holding down Abner Louima, a black Haitian arrestee, as another officer violently sodomized Louima with a broomstick in a station house bathroom. That other officer, Justin Volpe, pleaded guilty to the assault last month in the face of overwhelming evidence and the corroborating testimony of four fellow officers. Schwarz and Volpe, both white, could now face life in prison...
Berkowitz's bid for a spot on Harvard's senior Faculty ended in the spring of 1997, when Harvard President Neil L. Rudenstine decided not to promote...
...probably happened with the passage in 1996 of welfare reform, a law that shifted government's mission from providing for people to changing them. Included in that law, with quiet support from the White House, was an amendment by Republican Senator John Ashcroft that let churches and religious groups bid on government contracts to provide job training and other services. Since then, Gore has highlighted many of those efforts in his travels as Vice President, touting the prayer and Bible study included in a job-training program in San Antonio, Texas, and the spiritual component in a San Francisco initiative...
Microsoft won that bid with its much publicized $5 billion purchase of AT&T stock. Now it's set to provide Ma Bell with up to 10 million set-top boxes preloaded with a stripped-down version of Windows. AOL missed out, and its stock went into a brief tailspin. But broadband is not a zero-sum game--at least, not yet. Case quickly countered with his own new deal, to have Hughes Electronics' DirecTV offer AOL via satellite to its 7 million customers. The resulting product will be called AOL TV. Microsoft, of course, is still pushing...