Word: fiat
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...clear when he may be in shape to meet the judge again. Meanwhile, investigators are looking at the possibility that the fatal Mercedes may have collided lightly with another car in front of it, causing Paul to lose control. They are intrigued by taillight fragments from a Fiat Uno found near the tunnel entrance. Skidmarks, pieces of the Mercedes' headlight and scratches on its right side also support this idea, as does some eyewitness testimony...
Divorced from Randolph in 1945, Pamela moved to France, dallied with playboy prince Aly Khan, had the Churchill marriage annulled--while keeping the name--and converted to Catholicism in an effort to marry Gianni Agnelli, bachelor head of auto giant Fiat. He balked, as did the married Elie de Rothschild, scion of the French banking and wine family...
...people of Cambridge, represented by their city councillors, unanimously oppose the U.S. Shuttle to Logan Airport. The service comes to town due entirely to judicial fiat and the decree of a statewide bureaucratic agency...
...coming out of his agencies, such as the Agriculture Department's new rules for meat inspection, which were served up amid fireworks and grill smoke on the Fourth of July weekend. Often he relies on simple exhortations--to local government, network executives or tobacco companies--with no particular executive fiat lending them force. "Doesn't matter," says a Clinton adviser with obvious satisfaction. "After a while they all blend together. Bottom line: the President's signing important papers at his desk." So what if the papers merely instruct the Education Secretary to stock up on stamps and mail out truancy...
...contribute 50,000 cell phones pre-programmed to dial 911, along with free cellular air time, to the nation's 20,000 community policing programs to help them combat crime. TIME Washington correspondent J.F.O McAllister that Americans can expect to see Clinton expanding his new tack of governing-by-fiat, since it casts him as the activist President working hard for middle-class folks. Take the speech last month when he asked television networks for three hours of educational programming each week. Didn't cost him a dime to get up before a crowd and propose it, but the idea...