Word: granted
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...both White House officials and the Army moved quickly to pour embalming fluid on the suggestion. "It would be outrageous for anyone to grant or influence the granting of exceptions under the rules for burial at national cemeteries because of political or fund-raising considerations," said White House special counsel Lanny Davis. Indeed, the record shows the only burial exemptions the President made were for spouses of soldiers. Perhaps this is one Clinton scandal with a particularly short life span...
...call intended for a government hit man, expected to help with a plan to destabilize the Anglo-Russian detente whose peace treaty is to be signed that evening. What ensues is Hitchcock's "wrong man" scenario, but with humor instead of horror, and Bill Murray instead of Cary Grant...
Bates, who has obtained an initial grant to begin an Africa Studies center at Harvard, thinks the ability to generalize is at the center of well-done area-specific research...
Rosenthal, who is Oliver professor of hygiene, will continue in his post at UHS during his term, which began Monday. He has long been an active member of the cancer society since receiving a research grant from the Massachusetts chapter in the early...
Bonham Carter's career has not lingered exclusively in Edwardiana; curiosity drives her into many movie landscapes. She is splendid as the impatient girlfriend of penniless poet Richard E. Grant in a lovely new film of George Orwell's Keep the Aspidistra Flying. She has played Marina Oswald (the TV movie Fatal Deception), Woody Allen's selfish wife (in Mighty Aphrodite), Sister Clare to Mickey Rourke's Francis of Assisi (no, really, in the 1989 Francesco), a French-speaking fashion designer (Portraits Chinois), a bachelor-party stripper (the BBC's Dancing Queen) and a scrubwoman who lops off vital parts...