Word: hunts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...President was understandably silent about all this, but his surrogates treated the news like a hanging curve ball. "A salacious witch-hunt," cried former White House counsels Abner Mikva and Jack Quinn, demanding that Starr either abandon this avenue of inquiry or resign. Pumped with rage and delight, adviser James Carville recited a litany of Whitewater inquiries: "The RTC report, the FDIC report, the Gonzales hearings, the Leach hearings, the D'Amato hearings, the Fiske special prosecutorship, the Starr special prosecutorship--and you know where we are? Into some troopers trying to talk to some women. [The investigation...
...obvious but startling admission by one of the smallest tobacco companies, Liggett Group, that cigarettes are addictive and have been pointedly marketed at kids for years. The confession signaled the first real break from the industry's see-no-evil posture. Reportedly, the event prompted North Carolina Governor James Hunt to call his friend Bill Clinton. The White House then got in touch with Mississippi's Moore to ask if talks with the industry might prove productive...
Ocon said that she and Maggiore will be flying out together with Bailey this summer to spend a week continuing her apartment hunt as well as looking for housing and employment...
...investigators are searching for dirt on President Bill Clinton's past sex life in order to dig up revealing pillow talk about the Whitewater investment scheme. In a series of recent interviews with Arkansas state troopers and 12 to 15 women, including Paula Jones, investigators swerved from their usual hunt for business-related information to unearth details on Clinton's sex acts and any illicit rendezvous with other women, The Washington Post reported. Attorneys working with independent counsel Kenneth Starr argue that the interviews were necessary to establish whether President Clinton had confided details of his business investment to anyone...
Still, the episode is a reminder that the market has herd instincts. The popular stocks are the ones that go up. But you never know what's popular until after a big move, and popularity can be fleeting. The best way to win is to hunt for good companies that are out of favor. Then wait. If they really are good, the herd will find them, usually after some event calls attention to what the crowd has been missing--like Gates writing a check to Comcast. That's the way Warren Buffett invests. Buffett--one of Gates' buddies...