Word: counseled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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John Collier, Discover's counsel, said thewhole problem "simply stems from competition" andthat Discover "does not deserve this...
...forward it will, at least for a while, though the betting now is that after it's all over, Bill Clinton will still be standing. When the independent counsel Kenneth Starr makes his appearance this week before Hyde's committee, in the first congressional impeachment hearings since Watergate, Democrats will be hoping that Starr has no new bombshell. So will most Republicans. What both sides want badly is to avoid anything that would compel them to prolong an impeachment process that nearly everyone wants to be done with. The question...
...like bug-eyed prosecutorial sadism. A senior White House aide just shrugged. "Dying stars always flare before they fade away." After the indictments were announced, Hubbell appeared briefly to say, "I do not know of any wrongdoing on behalf of the First Lady and President, and nothing the independent counsel can do to me is going to make me lie about them...
Democrats who are eagerly waiting their chance to stick a fork into Ken Starr this week should be wary: the independent counsel has no place to go but up. Yes, the star witness at impeachment hearings will be forced to account for every questionable turn in his investigation of Monica Lewinsky. But Starr, often caricatured as a pious partisan out to ruin Bill Clinton at any cost, comes well trained for the contest...
...Microsoft, not surprisingly, is crying foul. Isn't this the same sort of deal that landed us in antitrust court, asked Microsoft legal counsel Charles "Rick" Rule? "Unless [the government is] about to go and criminally charge the Netscape and AOL and Sun people, which they aren't, then they can't claim these kinds of negotiations are improper," he said. Of course, none of these companies have a monopoly like Microsoft's to use as leverage. But the talks may become a vindication of Microsoft's central claim -- that you can't regulate an industry that turns topsy-turvy...