Word: gavels
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Kong in a suddenly turbulent Asian financial climate. Jiang agreed with that too and said he was glad the New York Stock Exchange had rebounded because he was going to open its session when he was in New York City on Friday. "I don't want to put the gavel down and have [the market] plummet," he joked...
When Council President Lamelle D. Rawlins '99 has an interest in legislation being debated by the council, she passes the gavel to Price. If he also has a conflict, the council secretary moderates...
...verdict or reduce the charge, though that is deemed unlikely in such a controversial case. Thursday's verdict shocked court observers, who had expected the lengthy jury deliberation and a poor prosecution performance to result in a not-guilty verdict. Much of the U.K., where the trial has received gavel-to-gavel coverage, was aghast at the result. "The only 12 people who believe Louise Woodward is guilty are the 12 people on the jury," said defense lawyer Andrew Good. "I'm at a loss to understand how anyone in their right mind could come to this verdict...
...question here is: Does anybody care? Ongoing Congressional campaign fund-raising hearings continue to draw limited interest, though surfers can follow them gavel-to-gavel...
Even as he raised his gavel to open the hearings, Thompson knew that the committee's Democrats had found a way to steal the show. For weeks the man at the center of the scandal, former D.N.C. fund raiser John Huang, had refused to testify; so when Glenn disclosed in his opening statement that Huang might be willing to talk if he were granted some partial immunity, Republicans growled that it was "nothing more than an opening-day stunt." White House aides, who had been nervous that the retiring former astronaut might try to depart the Senate with a statesmanlike...