Word: firm
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Daschle and Lott slogged through two days of intense negotiations last week, they tried everything they could think of to work out their differences. At issue: whether to make the videotape of the depositions public, whether to fix a firm end date for the trial, whether to allow a vote on a "finding of fact" resolution that would in effect seal Clinton's guilt without convicting him of impeachable offenses. The two leaders talked on the phone. They passed notes. And on Thursday morning they met for 90 minutes in Daschle's conference room. Along the way, they held...
Their plan--coupling a prescription for political settlement with threats of military action if the deal fails--took firm shape, officials told TIME, when the Administration privately decided after the Serb massacre of ethnic Albanians at Racak on Jan. 15 that G.I.s would have to be deployed as peacekeepers. With that decision in her purse, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright sped through Europe last week, pushing the allies into an ultimatum that essentially orders Yugoslavia's President Slobodan Milosevic to sign an agreement on autonomy with Kosovo's ethnic Albanians within three weeks. If he doesn't, NATO formally warned...
...Michael Ovitz, the former uber-agent who repped Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks before quitting for a short-lived tenure as president of Disney. Four miserable years later, he's back from exile, offering his services as a manager and raiding clients from Creative Artists Agency, the firm just a mile away that he co-founded 23 years ago. Last week, after Robin Williams signed on with Ovitz's new Artists Management Group, seven other actors and directors were told by the Young Turks running CAA to make a choice: Ovitz...
Myles V. Lynk '70, a partner with the firm, spoke about different sectors of the profession...
Harvard's public face is about to change. Chief spokesperson Alex Huppe announced yesterday that he will leave the University in May for a position at an international public affairs firm...