Word: dealing
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...improprieties of Mike Deaver and Ed Meese, set out to make sleaze a bipartisan issue. As the highest-ranking Democrat, Wright, whose slicked-back hair, caterpillar eyebrows and leering grin give him the look of a wheeler-dealer, was a good target. After revelations of an unusual deal in which a Texas publisher paid Wright 55% royalties -- three or four times the usual rate -- for a collection of the Speaker's speeches and anecdotes, Common Cause and 72 Republicans asked the House Ethics Committee to investigate...
That leaves the committee to decide on two questions that are, at the least, embarrassing to the Speaker. One is whether Wright's financial dealings with Fort Worth developer George Mallick violated House rules. The other is whether Wright's sweetheart royalty deal was designed to get around congressional limits on outside income...
...plans for what he calls a Spill Response Corps, to be organized by the state but paid for by the oil companies "as part of the cost of doing business here." And Governor Cowper insisted on a credible plan by the Alyeska consortium, which runs the pipeline, to deal with spills: "There's going to have to be a plan that satisfies our specialists. And if it is not complied with, we don't have any remedy except to shut down the pipeline terminal ((at Valdez...
...dial. (FNN officials say their channel has been dropped by only a few systems to make room for CNBC.) In addition, the channel's programming, aimed at both hard-core market watchers and ordinary consumers, could be an uneasy mix. Then too there is Ted Turner to deal with. The CNN founder has already fired one loud volley at the competition, denouncing NBC executives as "bozos" and claiming that they started the channel only after failing to "stifle" the competition by buying CNN, a proposed deal that fell through a few years ago. Cable's Captain Outrageous vs. broadcasting...
Yesterday's debate once again raised questions of how the state will deal with this year's budget deficit, which Gov. Michael S. Dukakis' administration last week projected would be at least $100 million by June 30, the end of the fiscal year...