Word: mains
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...President, Texas Governor George W. Bush. His staff started the week quashing rumors that Bush, fearful of being labeled the presidential candidate of the pro-gun party, had urged his brethren in Congress to embrace gun control. Bush had talked to Senator Larry Craig of Idaho, the N.R.A.'s main defender in the Senate, but it was only to deny the claim made by the Democrats that Bush favored their party's amendment supporting mandatory background checks at gun shows. It was true, Bush told Craig, that he had long been on record supporting such checks...
...Suharto Inc. began to take shape. Before being officially named President, Suharto issued Decree No. 8, allowing him to seize two conglomerates with combined assets of $2 billion. They were recast as PT Pilot Project Berdikari, one of the companies that became a main lever of the family empire. But the bedrock of the Suharto fortune was the presidential yayasan, or foundation. Dozens were set up, ostensibly as charities, and they have in fact funded a large number of hospitals, schools and mosques. However, the foundations were also giant slush funds for investment projects of the Suhartos and their cronies...
...twinkle in his eye too. But at 5 ft. 7 in., he looks like a stray from the Mickey Mouse Club. He's kind of bashful and aw-shucks looking when bidding begins on his jacket, a rainbow-colored affair bearing the name of his main sponsor--DuPont automotive finishes. Bidding starts at $500 and ends at $10,000, and I am stunned. Not by the price but by the idea that someone might leave the house wearing such a thing...
Triant said the chance to teach without certification is the main attraction of the bonus program. Next year, he will be expanding the PBHA program CHANCE--in which Harvard students work with students at Cambridge Rindge and Latin School-to other high schools and colleges...
...foreign birth. Gandhi's brief resignation had been prompted by three Congress leaders -- subsequently expelled -- echoing this concern. "She has shrewdly used the rebellion in the party to her own advantage," says TIME New Delhi correspondent Maseeh Rahman. "It's built up Congress's resistance to the opposition's main line of attack, and has helped her overcome her failure to form a government last month...