Word: gavelling
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...that usually breaks on partisan lines, Gingrich needs every GOP vote he can get. To make sure members toe the line, party leaders are threatening to cut off Republican campaign funds to defectors. What is certain is this: even if he emerges from the vote holding the Speaker's gavel, the man who just two years ago was considered one of the most powerful ever to hold the office will speak with a smaller voice. -- Scot Woods
What if they gave an auction and nobody bid? When Vincent Van Gogh's Jardin a Auvers went on the block at Paris' posh George V Hotel, auctioneer Jacques Tajan brought the gavel down on a supposed bid of $6.4 million. After the sale, however, Tajan admitted he had merely pretended to have a buyer; in fact, not a single real offer was made. Why no takers? As Tajan put it, the painting has "an odor of sulfur" about it. Indeed, the 25-in. by 31-in. canvas has a long, troubled history. Supposedly painted by the penniless artist just...
...idea for the O.J. Civil Trial came about when Judge Hiroshi Fujisaki barred cameras from his courtroom during the current Simpson case. E! had watched its ratings skyrocket during the network's gavel-to-gavel coverage of the criminal trial, and executives reasoned that the daily dramatizations would be the best way to give viewers their O.J. fix. "The re-enactments take people inside the courtroom," defends John Rieber, E!'s programming vice president, "and that's where they want to be." Indeed, the O.J. Civil Trial has doubled E!'s audience for the 8 p.m. time slot...
...high-octane conservative and chair of the House Rules Committee, Solomon wanted to run for the Speaker's gavel in 1994, but yielded to his friend Newt Gingrich. In a heated exchange on the House floor this year, he invited assault-weapons-ban advocate Patrick Kennedy (D-R.I.) to "step outside." He takes good care of his district, though, and his odds for a 10th term are good--the district is only 23% Democrat...
...into the convention with a lot of bill signings and directives--health care, welfare, tobacco regulations. The Republicans made a serious blunder in timing by sending bills to the White House just after their convention, allowing us to use them to slice away at their momentum. Before the opening gavel fell, we had regained 6 of the points we had lost...