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Hughes laid the groundwork for the issue by trekking to more than 100 cities, including Charlottesville, Va., home of Monticello, "where you couldn't sit down because everything was a historical monument," and Prout's Neck, Maine, where he looked upon the same "great, severe coastline" that inspired Winslow Homer. His cross-country expedition produced an eight-part mini-series, also called American Visions, which will air on PBS from May 28 to June 18, and a 635-page companion volume just published by Alfred A. Knopf...
Kelman's method of mediation, which he has been developing since the 1970s, "prepared the groundwork for what I consider to be the very important breakthrough of the Oslo agreement," Kelman said...
...jump more quickly than Al Gore at the opportunity to spend three days with a few hundred bureaucrats droning on about the intricacies of development grants and tax credits. But as with almost everything the Vice President does these days, it was hard to miss the bits of political groundwork being laid here and there at last week's White House Community Empowerment Conference in Detroit. In between sessions, Gore sped from one photo opportunity to the next with the city's hugely popular black mayor, Dennis Archer. They toured the new African-American history museum, inspected operations...
...meantime, Clinton appeared to be laying the groundwork for a disclosure of his own when he said he could not remember whether he too had solicited campaign money at the White House. The President seemed eager to avoid a trap of his own making, telling reporters he could not flatly rule out ever saying "while I was talking to them [supporters], 'Well, we need your help' or 'I hope you'll help us.'" But after the press conference, a White House aide told TIME that Clinton has been overheard asking donors in receiving lines and at informal gatherings for "support...
...close readers of network tea leaves, the move had more resonance than a mere juggling of titles. By giving up the job he has held since 1977, Arledge is acknowledging that retirement is in sight and that the Arledge era is nearing an end. And by laying the groundwork for his succession, ABC bosses are taking the sort of bold action needed to revitalize a news organization that seems to have passed its best days...