Word: broking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Kendall's preferred option will always be silence. It was Kendall who moved most forcefully in the 48 hours after the scandal broke to shut down Clinton's own plan to explain himself and go public with, as the President put it, more rather than less; sooner rather than later. Even as the White House spin operation was weighing options on how and when Clinton would tell his story--whether it was to be in an interview or a news conference, on television or in print--"the lawyers went through chapter and verse with [Clinton] and decided...
...Reform, explains the persistence of nursing-home abuses. But a recent spate of multimillion-dollar jury awards to nursing-home residents and their families because of poor care may force some homes to improve. A California woman won a $95 million verdict after the jury was told how she broke her shoulder and shattered her hip (last month a judge cut the award to $3 million), and a jury awarded $6.3 million to the family of a Florida man who wandered from his nursing home and drowned in a pond...
MARK THOMPSON, another Washington correspondent, has spent the past 20 years reporting on the U.S. military. But last October, when a former Pentagon whistle blower tipped him off to deaths by negligence in California nursing homes, the Pulitzer prizewinner plunged in and broke the story for TIME. His reporting also helped prompt the government to take action. Last week President Clinton ordered stricter regulation of nursing homes, and this week the Senate will hold hearings on the matter. Thompson says the hearings are an important chance for Americans to become more aware of the awful conditions in some...
...skate with a rival, MAIA USOVA, left. At least he tried to. Pasha disappeared. He has tried calling since, and she has hung up on him. She claims he hasn't called. Maybe it hurts most because Pasha had a very public affair with Maia's husband and broke up her rival's marriage. "There is sadness because we are great skaters together," says Evgeny. "But there is relief because I will have another life that I deserve. I'm expecting a new, happy life with no stress." Sounds like Pasha may have found her screenplay. --Reported by Alice Park...
...LIAISON DANGEREUSE] Named Army Chief of Staff in 1930, he brought his mistress with him from Manila. When they broke up, she began talking...