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...their benefits. "Of course he said he'd take care of them," said Biggs. ????? "As long as he does the speeches within the four corners of what the FEC allows, they're okay," said Clark campaign general counsel William Oldaker. But the problem is that the law is not clearcut on this issue. In an advisory opinion issued to Republican candidate David Duke's campaign in 1992, the FEC said that if Duke discussed his campaign or other candidates "during the speech or during any question and answer period" the speech would take on the appearance of "one that...
...lawyer assures me that the case is clearcut since the bailiff has recognized his fault innot delivering my papers on time," Suleiman said."Therefore as the lawyer puts it, the bailiff hasdeprived me of satisfaction in the case and he isliable for that...
...tried different containers. He began with 18 plants and is now down to one. Well, actually two. "There's another weird plant that's growing in there that isn't pot," Mel says. Compared to the forest in Johnny's closet, Mel's closet looks like it has been clearcut. Next to one sickly plant is a pencil, stuck in the soil "to support the plant so it won't tip over...
...competition is improving in the league," Benson said. "We knew that either us, Yale or Princeton would win, but there was no clearcut favorite...
...preconceptions among its basic premises. The region is described by reporter Peter Appleborne as "one of the most conservative corners of a conservative state"; Ovett itself is "a dog-eared of 1200." Appleborne attributes the monolithic strength of the community's opposition to "residents' view of homosexuality as a clearcut moral issue"--an implied contrast to more open-minded folk...