Word: fray
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...Pennsylvania utility regulator. Enron discovered her in 1997 when it was trying to break into the lucrative Pennsylvania electricity market. (That year Bush adviser Karl Rove recommended that Enron hire political strategist Ralph Reed to build grass-roots support in the state.) Lay also jumped into the Pennsylvania fray, urging Bush to call his friend Governor Tom Ridge on behalf of Enron. "I called George W. to kind of tell him what was going on," Lay explained to the New York Times. "And I said that it would be very helpful to Enron, which is obviously a large company...
...task of choosing the five-member RAI board is in the hands of the president of the Italian Senate and speaker of the lower house of Parliament, both firm Berlusconi loyalists. The leading candidate to head the board, Carlo Rossella, is widely respected for being above the political fray but also happens to be the editor-in-chief of the Berlusconi-owned weekly magazine Pano-rama. When it looked last week as if lower house speaker Pierferdinando Casini might block Rossella's nomination to satisfy another political ally, a livid Berlusconi reportedly quipped to aides that "someone here...
...eerily similar movement is growing across universities today, from the University of Michigan to the University of California, Berkeley. A number of American Jewish organizations have joined the fray, some of which have urged the U.S. government to cut Israel’s foreign aid. San Francisco-based A Jewish Voice for Peace is conducting a petition drive, asserting that “as Americans, we do not want our foreign aid dollars used to deprive Palestinians of justice and human rights. As Jews, although we support a democratic Israel, we must criticize its security policies that have the effect...
...other three council candidates running from Winthrop have avoided the fray altogether...
...Balkan wars started in 1991, Mitrovica, or Kosovska Mitrovica as it is known in Serbia, was just another ethnically mixed city in Slobodan Milosevic's Yugoslavia. But, as the Serb strongman stepped up his campaign against ethnic Albanians and the rebel Kosovo Liberation Army, old neighborly ties began to fray. One night the body of Lindita's father was found in a back street on another side of town. A restaurant owner, he had been accused of giving food to the rebels. The Rexhepi family believe he was murdered by Serbs...