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Beyond the Beltway, the deal has plenty of detractors who may prove only too happy to provide legislators with the ammunition to blow the proposal to bits. Among the attorneys general, the chief naysayer through most of last week was Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey III, who argued that his colleagues were pushing too quickly for a settlement. (And they in turn accused him of grandstanding.) "They're trying to rush this through before we realize we've had our pockets picked," Humphrey said at midweek. He claimed tobacco could pay more than twice the agreed-upon amount, or some...
...case of law enforcement, trying to stop the elevator before it's too late. Neither the gaming companies nor the prosecutors know how existing law will apply to cyberspace. Two years ago, Minnesota attorney general Hubert Humphrey III filed suit against Granite Gate Resorts, based in Las Vegas, merely for advertising its upcoming Web-based sports-betting service, WagerNet, to Minnesotans...
...hard." In the next 24 hours she started slipping in and out of consciousness, and her family increased the intensity of its prayers. On the evening of June 21, she fell into a coma and died, three days short of her 17th birthday. At her parents' trial, Dr. Michael Humphrey, an endocrinologist, testified that Shannon would have had a 97% chance of full recovery if she had been brought into the hospital on what turned out to be the last day of her life...
...lies and deceptions that have been perpetuated on the American public by the tobacco companies," said Arizona's Grant Woods, who brought one of the first state suits that aim to recoup billions of dollars in Medicaid money spent on illnesses related to smoking. Attorney general Hubert ("Skip") Humphrey III of Minnesota emphasized the battles ahead: "This is like busting a street drug dealer to get the Colombia cartel. We are very serious about going ahead and making sure the entire industry is transformed...
...Clinton fails to identify himself soon with successful campaign reform, Gore could be tainted by association even if he doesn't have more sins to confess from '96. Three years from now, that could force him into one of the trickiest political maneuvers since 1968, when Vice President Hubert Humphrey, aiming for the presidency, tried to distance himself from the Vietnam War policies of his own Administration. If Humphrey were still around he would tell you: Compared to the intricacies of that dance, the macarena is simplicity itself...