Word: dealing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...stuffed with cash from African businessman Laurent Yene, plus a $250,000 illegal campaign contribution from Yene?s friend Vanessa Weaver, in return for Herman?s help in acquiring a federal license for a satellite phone system. Herman says Yene is simply out for revenge over a soured business deal. And she?s certainly got the support of her boss: The President, explained a wry Mike McCurry, ?knows what it?s like to be nibbled by an independent counsel...
...Amos endured another tragedy: a miscarriage. She channeled her pain into creativity--many songs on Choirgirl, including the grabby first single, Spark, deal with the loss. "The album really started flowing after I started to pick myself up from my miscarriage," she says. "You realize, 'I can't create as a woman-mother right now, but I can create as a musician.'" She recently married her miscarried baby's father, Mark Hawley, who is also her sound engineer. They had been dating secretly. Says Amos: "The sound was so amazing [on the last tour], I looked up and said...
...imagined sky like a distant, luminous sign. Generations have used it as a target for their dreams, hopes and fears. Since prophecies usually tell us more about the past than the future, how the millennium was envisioned--and, in a sense, invented--during earlier eras says a great deal about the successive stages of Western history, about the religious as well as secular faith of our ancestors--in short, about how we came to be what...
...sale of the vessels. But an investigation into complaints of unjustified commissions soon led to Elf lobbyist Deviers-Joncour, who admitted that the oil company had paid her some $10 million to promote the sale. Her mission was to persuade Dumas to reverse his opposition to the deal. But, she said, she was unsuccessful...
...Communications Wait a minute -- didn't the feds break up Ma Bell already? In the latest, and biggest yet, deal to shake up the unsettled telecom industry, highly acquisitive SBC Communications announced it would buy Ameritech in a $62 billion stock swap. The combined entity would comprise three of the original seven Baby Bells with more than $40 billion in annual revenues, controlling some 57 million lines in 13 Western and Midwestern states. Only U.S. West now stands between SBC control of nearly three quarters of the U.S. Throw in telecom deregulation that should eventually allow local phone companies...