Word: dealing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Bill Clinton or Kofi Annan can do about the hundreds of thousands who lost their lives in Rwanda and Bosnia. But at least the need for justice has been recognized--not just to salve our consciences and salvage our credibility, but to help reconcile the people who must deal with the aftermath of these tragedies and to prevent the past from a vengeful return. It is, after all that we did not do, the least that can be done...
Senator John McCain stood in his office, his eyes squeezed into slits and his hands choking the back of a chair. "O.K., what? What?!" he barked. It was mid-morning on March 25, and two of his aides were telling him that the tobacco deal he had painstakingly negotiated among impossibly contrarian parties was disintegrating yet again--this time over how much authority the Food and Drug Administration should have to regulate tobacco products. McCain studied his hands for a moment, as if he were surprised to see the rubber band that he always keeps around his right wrist. Then...
That's what Mississippi attorney general Mike Moore thought he had negotiated last year when he reached a $368.5 billion settlement on behalf of 40 states. But support quickly vanished. Bill Clinton backed away amid protests by the health lobby and some Democrats that the deal was too easy on Big Tobacco. "I looked around," Moore recalls, "and there was nobody behind...
...weeks ago, the Administration finally told McCain the price of the President's support: $1.10. That is, the Administration's budget figured on a deal in which the cost of a pack of cigarettes would rise $1.10 over five years. Some G.O.P. lawmakers gagged at the cost--privately they were still promoting the industry's interests. "We've got to go with the President's numbers," McCain cajoled a worried Republican in a phone call. "Otherwise we open ourselves up to the charge that all we care about is the tobacco companies...
...figure made Moore nervous too. McCain and the White House wanted nearly twice as much as the 68[cents] he had originally negotiated, raising the cost of the deal at least $138 billion. Since McCain had barred the tobacco companies from the negotiations, Moore and the other AGs found themselves serving as reluctant surrogates. The AGs feared that the hike was a backbreaker that would cause R.J. Reynolds, the most vulnerable of the Big Five, to pull out. But McCain was able to reassure them that RJR could handle the costs...