Word: lande
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...what Gates and Bingaman could not have foreseen is that the case would land before the ornery intellect of Stanley Sporkin-a former chief of enforcement at the Securities and Exchange Commission who never learned the meaning of the words "It's none of my business.'' The more Sporkin learned about Microsoft in hearings that began last fall, the less he liked the settlement that Gates and Bingaman had worked out and the role that he, as the reviewing judge, was being asked to perform. "I will not be played for a fool," he warned during a heated session last...
...that role, Young will be a leader in Gingrich's drive to pass the G.O.P.'s government-curbing contract. Of course, nothing in that heralded document attacks environmental preservation directly. For who, after all, would be against preserving the air, land and water? A TIME/CNN poll last month found that 88% of Americans consider environmental protection either "one of the most important" U.S. problems or at least "very important," while only 23% think antipollution regulations "have gone too far." But the same poll indicated that Americans support the Republican drive to reform the regulatory process...
Reports surfaced that Whitewater independent counsel Kenneth Starr will ask the Clintons to give sworn interviews about the land deal at the heart of the scandal. The Clintons let it be known that they would cooperate...
Another Robertson organization working in Zaire is the African Development Co. Around the world, Robertson has substantial business interests (in the U.S. he controls TV's Family Channel, the Ice Capades and KaloVita, a venture selling vitamins and skin creams from the Holy Land), and ADC is a private enterprise formed to look into investments in mining, lumber, agriculture, transportation and power generation, with an eye to plowing the profits back into humanitarian efforts. A nascent diamond-mining operation in Zaire is a project of the ADC. Located on a river southeast of the boomtown of Tshikapa in the heart...
...allow easy check-ins as late as 20 minutes before departure, TIME Denver correspondent Richard Woodbury says the small portion that now works is "Disneyesque, sexy and fast." Unfortunately, he says, "it's only serving one part of one airline -- United -- and only departing passengers." The upshot: travelers may land promptly, but then wait hours for their bags...