Word: maneuverers
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In the course of the investigation, Murdoch disclosed that his Australia-based News Corp. owned 99% of the equity of the original Fox stations, even though it held, through a chain of intermediary companies, only 24% of the stations' voting stock. In its ruling, the commission found that this structure...
Fidel Castro, long suspected of possible complicity in the assassination of President Kennedy, is apparently a conspiracy buff himself. Just seven months after the November, 1963 shooting in Dallas, according to a newly-declassified letter from FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, the Cuban leader ran his own tests to determine...
One section of the film focusses on the filmmakers' attempts to maneuver France into more committed involvement in the war. Using what must be sizeable prestige, Levy conveys a message from Bosnian President Izetbegovic to French President Mitterand.
Just 24 hours after French officials ordered five alleged American spies to leave the country, the affair has become mired in France's own presidential politics. Today, Foreign Minister Alain Juppe -- a supporter of conservative candidate Jacques Chirac -- said he was "scandalized" by the leak and ordered an investigation. Interior...
It's a savvy political maneuver, but it shouldn't fool anyone. If the considerations were primarily financial, CPB would not be such a priority. Its budget is minuscule--only $319 million a year--compared to other "wasteful" federal agencies that sop up far more government dollars.