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...depends on the new president," Monad says. "If he comes in and [the deans] get into a deadlock [over the campaign], they'd have to rethink it. This is not a one- or two-person thing, all the deans get together and discuss their priorities...
Even as jail doors slammed behind Keating, who remained in prison pending his arraignment next month, shock waves from the thrift crisis rippled across the U.S. The impact contributed to the budget deadlock in Washington and aggravated the slump in real estate prices in cities glutted with condominiums and office towers. In Denver federal regulators filed a $200 million lawsuit against the President's son Neil Bush and 10 other officials of the failed Silverado S&L, charging them with "gross negligence." Meanwhile, Neil Bush prepared to respond this week to previous federal charges that he abused his role...
...years. If a deal is not reached by Oct. 1, the government could face $100 billion of across-the-board budget cuts. While lawmakers contemplated legislation to avert that sweeping move, the White House threatened to veto such a measure in order to force a resolution of the budget deadlock. Said President Bush at week's end: "We're down to the wire...
...himself, Bush hoped to pressure both sides to forge an agreement in time to announce it in a nationally televised address on Tuesday night. Failing that, he may use the speech either to blast those he blames for the impasse or to make a dramatic offer to break the deadlock. Not even his closest advisers could say which option Bush would take...
After Mladenov's departure, the Socialist leadership agreed in principle ^ that a non-Socialist should fill the presidency. But last week saw their hopes of installing a candidate of their choice dashed. After five ballots ended in deadlock, members of parliament, by a vote of 284 to 105, elected as President Zhelyu Zhelev, the leader of the opposition Union of Democratic Forces. Zhelev, who ran unopposed after all parties withdrew their initial candidates, needed a two-thirds majority of the members present...