Word: imbroglio
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...head. I stare at a middle-aged white guy with an angry grin aiming a '38 at my face. "They're gunning for you," reads the tag line on the page--an ad for the Virginia-based campaign consulting firm called Jamestown Associates. In light of the recent imbroglio over gun control in the house, Jamestown promises to "turn those bullets into blanks" for GOP. candidates who will campaign against those nefarious Democrats...
...Duehay, the great compromiser, therent-control imbroglio represented the greatestopportunity for him to try to placate a hard-linetenants' union while still pushing throughrent-control reform. And for better or for worse,Duehay did not attempt to tackle the issue...
...diplomatic phalanx went into furious motion last week as Washington stewed over martial means and ends. Colin Powell, the former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff whose Gulf War success carries great weight, spoke up on Kosovo after weeks of silence. A foreign policy imbroglio that requires military force needs clear, precise goals if that force is to be used wisely, advised the retired Army general. "You have to have pretty solid political objectives, and then apply decisive force to them," he said. "Nothing in the Powell doctrine says no casualties." He pointedly noted that the Gulf War planners...
Call it the Monica effect. For a year, the Lewinsky imbroglio has frozen the Democratic Party in place, making it impossible for any would-be candidate to position himself for the presidential campaign. "You can't pursue your long-term goals," says a Gephardt associate, "when you're smack in the middle of a 24-hour-a-day effort to keep the President and the party from going down the toilet." Never was Gephardt needed so badly as on Clinton's worst day, when the House debated the articles of impeachment and the Democratic leader implored his colleagues to "step...
...extravaganzas as Showboat and Ragtime, led an eight-year scheme to fake earnings or hide financial losses and siphon off some $4.6 million. In a separate civil complaint, the SEC charged the two with securities fraud. Drabinsky denied the charges and blamed the company's "new management" for the imbroglio...