Word: hookings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Fiske had begun his investigation -- Lewis was visited on Feb. 2 by April Breslaw, a Washington-based senior RTC lawyer. According to Lewis' notes, Breslaw expressed hope that Lewis would say Whitewater had not drained any money out of Madison; that "would get them ((Washington higher- ups)) off the hook." Lewis insisted her investigation had indicated just the opposite: that improper shuttling of money between Whitewater and Madison had indeed hurt the S&L, and that McDougal's "business partners," including the Clintons, should have known it. When Breslaw angrily denied this account of the conversation, Leach blandly observed that...
...cracked across the face with a Louisville Slugger," he said, "you'd better hook me up to that morphine I.V., pronto...
...alone in giving Cook the oxygen of publicity. But when the only hook for a story is a lawsuit -- which takes only one person convincing one lawyer to go forward -- the media are under some obligation to check out the accusation. In this case, a modest amount of reporting would have shown the charges to be suspect. Repressed memory is controversial to begin with, and the hypnotist who jogged Cook's memory is in the graphic-arts business and is not a licensed psychologist. The evidence was flimsy. There was no telltale inscription in a book Bernardin was supposed...
...Nextel hook up to compete with AT&T in cellular phones...
...They're going to come out and try and hook us, hold us and goad us into stupid penalties," junior Ben Coughlin said. "As long as we stay mentally disciplined, things should turn out fine...