Word: dealing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Student activists Daniel R. Morgan '99, who is currently organizing a new student group to deal with labor issues, and Marco B. Simons '97, founder of the Burma Action Group, also addressed the issue of activism on campus...
...First Among Equals, which included a chapter on Robert Taft, the Ohio Republican who led the Senate during the Truman Administration. Like Lott, Taft was a staunch conservative who forcefully stated his views and didn't compromise on matters of principle--but who also worked to achieve the best deal available. "You can't usually get 100% of what you want in politics," Lott says. "But if you can get 80%, or most of what you want, that's usually worth doing...
Enron is also running up its own electric bill: the Houston company is paying $3.2 billion to acquire Oregon's Portland General Electric Co. in a deal that will give Enron access to low-cost hydroelectric power, 650,000 customers and an opportunity to go to school on retail operations...
...think of 40-mile-an-hour winds and zero-degree weather as a big deal," says JOHN FAHNER-VIHTELIC. That's probably because he has endured far worse. In 1977 he lay for 16 days without food, pinned above the dashboard of his station wagon after it plunged 150 ft. off an embankment in Washington State. He escaped with his life (partly by throwing his shirt into a nearby stream and sucking the moisture out of it), but not all of his limbs. The loss of his left leg hasn't slowed the 48-year-old down, though...
...record to give her the feel and experience of being in a studio; at 10 she had another practice session; and then at 11 LeAnn recorded a demo that the family sent to Curb Records, a small company in Nashville, Tennessee, that promptly signed her to a recording deal. About a year later, the title song for her first album, Blue, propelled the youngster to the top of the country charts and onto the fast track to stardom. The song was written for Patsy Cline, who died before she could record it, but it seems made for Rimes. The melody...