Word: nicked
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...nearly 700-page law and are skeptical that drug costs will be lowered. Now questions about how the bill was pushed through Congress could make them even more leery. The House Ethics Committee and the FBI launched investigations into whether G.O.P. members of the House offered fellow Republican Nick Smith of Michigan a bribe--in the form of a hefty contribution to his son's congressional campaign--to vote for the measure on Nov. 22. And the inspector general of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) began a probe into charges by Richard Foster, Medicare's top cost...
...Nick holds strong with his libertarian views, but we love him anyway,” said Rosenfeld...
...It’s great,” said Cabot captain Nick S. Miller ’04. “The team is great, the House is great and our opponents were great as well...
Bush’s bill passed the House by a single vote. And getting even a “$400 billion” entitlement through the Republican Congress was a challenge. Already we know that (according to Chicago Sun-Times journalist Robert Novak) retiring Rep. Nick Smith, R-Mich., received threats because he opposes deficit spending. With the Bush-controlled House leadership’s endorsement, Novak reported, Rep. Duke Cunningham, R-Calif., and others told the disloyalist that his son—running in Michigan to succeed Smith—would lose funding from GOP loyalists...
College basketball players usually get e-mail from adoring teenage girls or trash-talking students from a rival school. So how does Nick Welch, star player at the Air Force Academy, feel when alums in Iraq send notes that say his team inspires their squadrons? "It's a great honor," says Welch. "But we have it easy. I have much more respect for what they're doing...