Word: confab
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...President is the man who will ultimately bear the blame if something happens. But his top aides came away from their Monday confab with more questions than answers. They've developed a bad case of nerves since a suspicious Algerian was arrested at the Washington State-Canada border two weeks ago. But they have uncovered no mother lode of hard information about his plans. "You don't know what's true," says a senior intelligence official. "But the political price of making a mistake in judging is so high." Is the chief threat lurking abroad or at home? Is Osama...
...charcoal gray. The Consumer Price Index was way up Friday -- the 0.7 percent hike was the biggest since the Gulf War -- and by close of day the Dow had shed 194 points. Now investors have two days to read the papers, look ahead to the Fed's interest-rate confab Tuesday and wonder: Is the best news on inflation behind us? And more important, does Alan Greenspan think...
...confab's main product, determined in advance by White House staffers, is the kickoff of a new surgeon general's study of violence in America. Building on similar studies done in 1972 and 1985, it will take a look at the roles of popular culture, peer pressure, mental illness and the availability of guns in teen shootings, and doubtless won't be completed until the issue (and this President) have long since moved on. President Clinton and his aspiring veep are caught between defenders of the First Amendment (the Hollywood types who donate to the Democrats) and those...
DUBIOUS LEGAL TACTICS Then: House managers hired spies to go through the garbage at the defense team's hotel Now: House managers had pre-deposition confab with Monica at the Renaissance Hotel...
...Bill Gates put the squeeze on Andy Grove? That's the latest antitrust charge federal investigators are pursuing in the Microsoft case, according to Wednesday's New York Times. Attempting to prove a pattern of abuse of monopoly power, the feds are focusing on a well-known August 1995 confab between Gates and Grove at Intel's campus. The Microsoft CEO was "livid" about certain software developments at the Intel Architecture Lab (IAL), according to an internal memo; the thought of the chipmaker meddling in multimedia and Java programs that would conflict with Microsoft's Windows ambitions...