Word: digging
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THOMAS W. LUCE III, 51, HAS MADE A CAREER OF CALMING the waters that Perot has stirred up. The founder of a large Dallas law firm, Luce was hired by Perot in 1974 to help dig him out of a disastrous attempted bailout of the Wall Street brokerage house of DuPont Glore Forgan. In 1984 Luce helped Perot negotiate the sale of his EDS computer-services company to GM; two years later, Luce settled a bitter dispute over the buyout of Perot's GM shares. To the general public, however, the Dallas attorney is better known for having been Perot...
...answers to the questions he should dread: his specific stands on the budget deficit, health care, urban policy, international aid and every other complex problem that elicits reams of position papers from presidential hopefuls. This clever move comes at the right time, just when the press is beginning to dig its unforgiving claws into him. Last week the Associated Press reported that according to papers from Richard Nixon's White House, Perot offered $50 million in 1969 to burnish the President's image. Perot denies the allegation, saying, "I can't control what people scribble on pads...
...essentially restrict capital felons to a single federal appeal. Kathleen Behan, his new attorney, has been relentless in developing the innocence argument. She has made more than a dozen trips to Grundy to uncover new evidence and enlist further support. A few months ago, she rented a backhoe to dig up the landfill where Keester Shortridge said he dumped the bloody sheets. For her effort, she was rewarded with a 1-ft. by 2- ft. swatch of the sheet. She has not only lobbied the press for coverage, but has waged a letter-writing campaign to Virginia lawyers, entreating them...
...didn't really have any leads in this story, but I tried my best anyway. Some friends on The Crimson began to dig around...
...food arrives. Sipp exclaims, "Oh yeah, here we go! look at the food, baby." All conversation ceases as they dig into plates of noodles, sweet and sour pork, and Peking ravs. John Lennon's "Imagine" comes over the stereo system, and Sipp, Torres and Vietzen begin to sing along softly...