Word: dealing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Gore and others are urging caution, arguing that the President can't afford to alienate Democrats when he needs them on the budget. So far, Clinton seems to be siding with the go-slow camp, which, the most ardent free-traders fear, could sink any chance of striking a deal with Congress...
...lending a hand was instinctive, closing the deal was closer to primal. Dole flew to Washington on Tuesday from Harvard, where he'd talked the deal over with--Who else?--former aide Sheila Burke. Following the path he'd taken a million times before, he went over to the Capitol, huddled behind the same ornate doors, took up a chair on a balcony overlooking the Mall. Dole expected criticism; Gingrich need not repay a cent for eight years, and since he's vowed to leave Congress after six, the Speaker will have plenty of time to raise...
...handle just about anything--anything but walking down the street and having a pal from the local police department slide up in his cruiser and ask mocking questions about all the cases the FBI has screwed up and all the headlines it's made and "Hey, what's the deal with this Whitehurst...
...great deal of resources will have to be expended simply responding to defense motions, meritorious or not. Already next week there will be a motion to reopen the case of Jeffrey MacDonald, the Green Beret doctor now serving a life term in prison for killing his pregnant wife and two daughters in the infamous Fatal Vision murders in 1970. MacDonald's lawyer, Harvey Silvergate, says the motion will be based in part on affidavits of FBI agent Michael Malone, formerly a lab examiner, submitted during the lawyer's attempt to reopen the MacDonald case. According to last week's report...
...landmark talks began shortly after the tiny Liggett Group struck a separate deal with 22 state attorneys general last month, breaking ranks and opening the way for the tobacco industry to put the legal onslaught--and $600 million in annual legal fees--behind it. "These cases were a gun to their heads," says John Coale, lead counsel for a coalition representing 60 law firms suing tobacco companies, who has been participating in the talks. "Now the industry has to prove its good faith...