Word: coverly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...attempt on the school bus, however, gave Arafat the cover he felt he needed to move. Arafat's forces added hundreds of detainees to the dozens it had already rounded up. In an unprecedented move, they put Sheik Ahmed Yassin, the founder and spiritual leader of Hamas, under house arrest and cut off his phone line...
...congressional rules, House and Senate members are permitted to fly on company planes if they pay the equivalent of first-class airfare on a regularly scheduled airliner. That fee is but a fraction of the actual cost to fly a corporate jet. And even that does not begin to cover the air-traffic-control and other services provided by the Federal Government...
...agents must attend one meeting a year in the vicinity of their FSC--a perfect excuse for a vacation in the Caribbean. Indeed, an FSC brochure put out by the Virgin Islands government extols the deep-sea fishing, the snorkeling, the reefs, the beaches, the 80[degree] weather. Its cover reads: U.S. EXPORTERS: TAKE A TAX BREAK IN PARADISE. Catherine Sittig, the FSC manager, said that when she asked one executive why he had located his FSC in Bermuda, he replied, "Because I play golf...
...Gingrich. Born to American parents in Rome and educated in Paris, Painton always brings a fresh eye to political journalism, including her reporting on the campaigns of Jesse Jackson and Bill Clinton. "I love American politics," she says, "because the facts constantly contradict the conventional wisdom." Of the dozen cover stories she has edited this year, Painton is most proud of two that did not come out of Washington: on the state of feminism and on gay politics. "One was meant to be an argument starter, and the other examined the complexity of gay issues. I'm interested in covering...
...thought to what he'll do next," says Stodghill. "But it will be a thrilling experiment to watch--to see a year from now what compromises he'll need to make to be an effective leader." Stodghill, who came to TIME last year from Business Week and has written cover stories on the Promise Keepers and sex education, reports that Ventura is nonplussed about his first major transition, moving from his suburban Minneapolis ranch to the confines of the Governor's mansion. "He says he's looking forward to all the free food...