Word: broking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...strong an advocate for impeachment.) A female attorney was known for her sensitivity to civil liberties issues, but the attitude won her the nickname Hallmark, after the famously sentimental greeting-card company. "This isn't the United Nations," says Starr spokesman Charles Bakaly. But when the Lewinsky scandal broke, there was nobody with the sensibility to point out, for instance, that subpoenaing Lewinsky's mother might not play too well in the real world...
...pursuit that in early 1997, he authorized his agents to question Arkansas state troopers about Clinton confidants, including alleged paramours from a decade before, who might have picked up scraps about shady business deals. Starr was so sure of his righteousness that he became outraged when the story broke and people had the temerity to question his motives. For the White House, it provided a predicate offense--the first piece of evidence used to paint Starr as a sex-obsessed keyhole peeper...
...commission or the IOC hands down would be very small potatoes compared to federal penalties. The Justice Department is now looking into possible extortion and tax and wire fraud by Salt Lake City Olympic Committee officials. Making a federal case out of the scandal will mean showing that organizers broke the law by using tax-exempt money to buy the gifts or to finance scholarships for relatives of IOC members...
...Boies perturbed by these developments? Not a bit, he says. Should he be? Well, South Carolina's Republican attorney general Charlie Condon says he broke ranks because the proposed merger of AOL and Netscape proves that Microsoft does not monopolize the PC industry. Because that is the point Microsoft has been earnestly making for two weeks, there was some celebration at the company's glitzy press conference Monday (the same event where Bill Gates, appearing by satellite, accused Boies of being "out to destroy Microsoft...and make us look very...
...RICKY WILLIAMS Just when the NFL was short on running backs, University of Texas senior Ricky Williams broke Tony Dorsett's 22-year-old record for career college rushing yards. Since Williams has dreadlocks, a nose ring and a pierced tongue, plus a refreshing measure of humility, odds are his name is going to be on your kid's shirt this time next year...