Word: del
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...Joseph Biden (D-Del.), incoming chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, asked the internal police agency in the Justice Department to investigate the delay. Justice Department intervention in an FBI probe is extremely unusual...
...canny political meddling proved to be the turning point in an election that Garcia managed to transform into a referendum on his first 16 months in office. Such tactics paid off handsomely. Not only did the President's handpicked candidate, an unknown named Jorge del Castillo, win the Lima mayoralty, the second highest elected office in Peru. When the votes were counted up and down the Andean nation, Garcia's A.P.R.A. had unofficially won in nine of Peru's ten largest cities, a gain of four. Combined with the party's control of both houses of the national legislature...
...buildup. We can only speculate, for example, about the likely nominees for judicial positions who will be dropped from White House lists due to the prospect of facing a Democratic controlled Judiciary Committee chaired by either Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '56 (D-Mass.) or Sen Joseph P. Biden (D-Del...
...sprawling indoor complex is crammed with 836 stores, 110 restaurants, 20 movie theaters and a 360-room hotel. Covering 5.2 million sq. ft., or the equivalent of 108 U.S. football fields, the West Edmonton Mall is twice the size of North America's runner-up shopping mall, the Del Amo Fashion Center in Torrance, Calif. The dimensions loom even more impressively in relation to Edmonton's population, only some...
Wintry rainstorms pelted the Uruguayan seaside resort of Punta del Este last week, forming an ominously fitting backdrop for the historic meeting of government ministers. Officials from 74 countries had arrived there to confront the ill wind of protectionism, which is threatening to freeze international trade and economic growth. The ministers, who at times donned Uruguayan wool sweaters and huddled around space heaters, struggled to agree on an agenda for a multiyear series of talks that they hope will create warmer trade relationships around the world. Declared Uruguayan President Julio Maria Sanguinetti as he opened the five-day meeting...