Word: cleaning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...easy on audits. Among those reported by Italian news agencies: Giorgio Armani, Gianfranco Ferre and Mariuccia Mandelli (the name behind Krizia.) TIME Rome reporter Greg Burke says that nearly all the top Italian fashion designers had been called in over the last several months as part of the massive "Clean Hands" corruption probe. Today, Armani reacted coolly: "It's a formality related to the known investigation...
TIME's Burke reports that Antonio Di Pietro, a legendary Italian prosecutor who has spearheaded "Clean Hands," is under investigation himself. Prosecutors in the northern city of Brescia are looking into a $75,000 loan he received from a businessman who was later implicated in the investigation. Of Di Pietro, once the most popular man in Italy, a graduate student in Rome told Burke: "He was the only person in Italy I believed...
...bill gave 18-year-olds the right to vote. Another increased Social Security benefits and funding for food stamps. And several other bills, such as the Clean Air Act and an act to control water pollution, addressed environmental concerns. The differing political agendas of the Nixon administration and students signalled the growing rift between...
...effective tactic than trying simply to override Clinton's veto. "There's a lot of stuff we don't care if it's never funded," Gingrich said. Withholding the funds, Gingrich said, will force Clinton to reconsider and negotiate with Congress over issues likeRepublican welfare reformand arewrite of the Clean Water...
Continuing his combative stance toward the Republican-controlled Congress, President Clinton said he would "happily and gladly" veto the House-passed revisions of the Clean Water Act. Calling it the "Dirty Water Act," the President portrayed the legislation as the legislation of "the lawyers and lobbyists who represent the polluters." Bud Shuster (R-Pa.), the bill's primary sponsor, shot back: "It's pretty evident the president is reading off a script handed him by environmental extremists." At issue are provisions of theHouse bill that would ease pollution controls on industry, restrict wetlands protection,and give local officials more...