Word: leaded
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Congress must also explicitly define the role of the independent counsel in impeachment proceedings. When evidence of possibly impeachable offenses surfaced last January, Starr conducted the investigations himself, instead of turning it over to Congress, as the independent counsel law requires. In the future, investigations that may lead to the national trauma of impeachment should be entrusted to the House...
...Congress must also explicitly define the role of the independent counsel in impeachment proceedings. When evidence of possibly impeachable offenses surfaced last January, Starr conducted the investigation himself, instead of turning it over to Congress, as the independent counsel law requires. In the future, investigations that may lead to the national trauma of impeachment should be entrusted to the House...
Since McCombe had led the fight against theSEIU as union. representative, or "steward," hewas a natural choice to lead the new union...
...looked as if Autissier might fare better this year. Despite early damage to her keel, mast and rudder, she had claimed the lead as the remaining 11 boats set out for Cape Horn and Uruguay. Hoping to gain time, Autissier opted for a southern route through what navigators call the Screaming 50s because of the violence of the seas. But one day as she was studying weather maps below, the autopilot misread the wind. The boat veered sharply and rolled over so quickly that Autissier barely had time to seal the cabin. "Everything was a wreck," she later told TIME...
...image of an American going into Southeast Asia and mucking it up for everybody was pretty irresistible," Boyle explains. "It gave the story added frisson." Nabbing this particular American for the lead also instantly added to the profile of the film, and to the cost of making it. Boyle had tentatively approached DiCaprio before Titanic came out, but by the time serious negotiations got going, the star's asking price had soared to $20 million, effectively doubling the film's budget...