Word: dealer
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Something about an electoral high must make people giddy. As Bill Clinton power glides toward re-election, nearly every day produces some new mess over his campaign funding. These include the disclosure that Jorge Cabrera, a convicted Florida drug dealer, contributed $20,000. The Democratic National Committee announced last week that it had returned the money, claiming no knowledge of his problems with the law. But in the overall responses of the President and his circle, which have ranged from the placid to the evasive, there is a whiff of hubris, the air of a campaign that sees every question...
...Times Co. and the Washington Post Co., are participating in the New Century Network, a project that connects local papers. The privately held Newhouse chain, which owns 26 daily papers, while pouring money into its newsroom operations at New Jersey's Star-Ledger, in Newark, and the Cleveland Plain Dealer, is also giving its online services a push. "What we are trying to do is reinvent the paper to the extent it is necessary to come up with a product that people in the '90s think is valuable and essential," says Star-Ledger editor Jim Willse...
...this credit are struggling to protect their profits and gain whatever edge they can. For some this has meant flashy new offerings like the $100,000 (as in credit line) Platinum Plus card that M.B.N.A. America Bank of Wilmington, Delaware, launched earlier this year. (Just tell that Rolls-Royce dealer to put it on the card.) For others, like GM, it has meant cutting back enticements that proved too expensive to maintain. For still others, like Apple Computer, which lured spenders with discounts on computers, it has become time to get out: the troubled company told holders of its Apple...
...Webb after a yearlong investigation, the stories allege that a San Francisco Bay-area drug ring, headed by Danilo Blandon and Norwin Meneses, two men with close ties to a CIA-sponsored Nicaraguan contra group known as the FDN, sold tons of coke to a notorious Los Angeles-based dealer named Freeway Rick Ross. Millions of dollars, according to Webb, were then sent back to the secret war against the leftist Sandinista regime. Webb provides a plethora of court documents, recorded interviews and photographs, all of which have been posted on the Mercury's site on the World Wide...
TOKIN' FLO! Florence Nightingale attended seances and took drugs. In an 1887 letter found in the attic of an antiques dealer, Nightingale says she took bromide, which was given to soldiers to curb libido...