Word: claime
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Despite Edwards' claim that Harvard is "not a local school, not even for people from Cambridge," Mayor Francis H. Duehay '55, now in his 14th term on the Cambridge City Council and his third term as the city's chief, believes his connection to the University contributed to his political rise...
Perhaps more concerning than the soft-money loophole in the election process is the emergence of so-called "issue ads"--advertisements clearly intended to sway an election which claim merely to discuss political issues and evade current laws by eschewing the magic words "vote for" or "vote against." Since they are also insufficiently regulated, as much as $275 million was spent on these advertisements in the 1998 Congressional elections. The Shays-Meehan bill would also extend current spending limits and disclosure requirements to the organizations that air these advertisements in the last 60 days before an election. While some criticize...
...claim to fame may soon go beyond just fruity pies. He's also one of the original founders of MiniMeals, Inc. After approaching Cambridge-based Capital Management Consulting, Le received the resources for his functional foods venture and together they formed the new corporation...
Authorities are blaming the blast on Chechen separatists dispatched from near the Dagestan border. In response, Moscow law enforcement agencies are carrying out a widespread search among the city?s Chechen population for signs of terrorist activity. They claim to be looking for a two-ton consignment of explosives transported to the capital in sugar bags, and have arrested more than 20 people on suspicion of involvement in terrorism. "But the bombing reveals a lot of what?s wrong in Russia today," says Meier. "The terrorists are suspected of using locally manufactured high-grade plastic explosives, which would imply that...
While Chechen Islamic separatists ? who are behind the fighting in Dagestan ? have certainly resorted to terror attacks inside Russia on many occasions in the past, many Russian politicians fear that President Boris Yeltsin may use them as a pretext to claim emergency powers and hang on to power. "Faced with a corruption scandal that won?t simply go away, that scenario may be tempting for Yeltsin," says Quinn-Judge. "But there?s no guarantee that he could actually pull it off and survive. There are even real questions over whether he could muster the support of the necessary security forces...