Word: courtships
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...GUCCIONE His courtship of the Unabomber falters as he is one-upped by the Washington Post...
...courtship had all the frenzied twists of a Looney Tunes cartoon--or CNN's Gulf War coverage. For nearly a month, with the world looking on, Time Warner chairman Gerald Levin used shuttle diplomacy to pursue an $8 billion merger with Ted Turner's Turner Broadcasting. Spectators watched in bemusement as Time Warner acknowledged its courtship, then appeared to be stymied by cable-TV king John Malone, a Time Warner rival whose Turner stake gives him effective veto power over a deal. But by Sunday, as TIME went to press, Levin and Turner were tantalizingly close to sealing an agreement...
...Florida,'' says Senator Gramm's top strategist, Charles Black. Gramm's aides are meeting methodically with all 150 Republican clubs in the state; Dole's aides are setting up steering committees in every one of the state's 67 counties. Part of what motivates this courtship is that Florida's Republican convention in November will hold the largest straw poll, just over two months before any voting takes place up north. And on March 12, the Florida primary will be the biggest wild card of the Super Tuesday set of elections. On that day Gramm hopes...
...November 1980, Martynov arrived in Washington with his wife Natalia to take up his duties, ostensibly as third secretary of the Soviet embassy in Washington. He was actually a lieutenant colonel in the KGB. In the spring of 1982, however, he was recruited through a joint FBI-CIA courtship program and began feeding information to the Americans...
...identified only 50 Senate votes for Foster by the end of the week-still one short of confirmation. The Christian Coalition plans to lobby Senators until the vote. Dole too can refuse to bring the nomination to the floor. His taste for blood, however, is uncertain-despite his courtship of the religious right. No candidate wants to highlight the differences between moderate Republicans and the anti-abortion right...