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...Senate supporters today failed, 57 to 43, to muster the 60 votes needed to block a threatened filibuster and bring his nomination to a vote. The Tennessee physician has the 51 votes he needs for confirmation, but the nomination is foundering under a scenario thatMajority Leader Bob Doleset in motion Tuesday. Dole, taking advantage of a filibuster threat byGOP presidential rival Phil Gramm, scheduled a vote to end debate on Foster after three hours today. "It's brilliant," says TIME's Karen Tumulty. "He's won on both counts: it looks like he was fair in bringing this...
Certainly his campaign's financial health is improving. As chairman of a powerful committee, he has been able to collect political-action committee money almost at will. After he became chairman, he arranged fund raisers for himself, at which Tele-Communications Inc., the Motion Picture Association of America, News Corporation and Time Warner, among others, were hosts. Sheila Krumholz, a research associate with the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics, says she expects Pressler to at least double the $145,367 in pac contributions he received from the communications industry during his campaign in 1990. "This is the biggest bill...
...Monday's City Council meeting, several Cantabrigians voiced support for a motion by Councillor Katherine Triantafillou to enforce the law immediately...
...excited about Jim--it will give us avisibility we haven't had before. Of course, we'reconcerned with maintaining our musical and socialintegrity as a women's group," she said. "Butwe're psyched that we're actually going to be putinto motion, rather than stagnating...
...billion bet on Murdoch's savvy and vision. Which is why his failure to develop clear successors among his management team is a growing problem for the 64-year-old executive. The media world is full of former Murdoch lieutenants, including free-lance mogul Barry Diller and Disney motion-pictures chief Joe Roth. After Murdoch is gone, who runs the place? MCI tried addressing that question with a contract clause that gives it the right to acquire Murdoch's News Corp. stock in the event his heirs choose not to sell a substantial stake. That's not much...