Word: padded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that Hillary was refusing to submit a financial statement, and she was desperate. "What can I do?" she asked. "This whole house of cards could come down." James came over, sat down with Susan and wrote down the various payments from the McDougals and Clintons on a yellow legal pad. Of the almost $200,000 that the Whitewater partners had had to contribute to cover shortfalls in income from the development itself, the McDougals had contributed just over $158,000; the Clintons just under $36,000. Before performing this exercise, James and Susan hadn't realized how large a discrepancy...
Thus armed, the next day Susan took the yellow pad, mustered her resolve and went to the Rose firm's office without an appointment. "Can I see Hillary," she said. Once ushered into Hillary's office, she dropped her perky cheerleader facade. "Look at these numbers," she said. "This is a list of our contributions, and this is a list of yours. I really don't understand your attitude given these numbers. If you don't give the bank the statement, they're going to call the loan." She still couldn't bring herself to admit that in that event...
...document and drop it off at the Twin City headquarters in North Little Rock, which Susan did. Then, soon after, Susan received a call from the Governor himself. "Would you mind," he began, "Hillary wants to look at the documents" to support Susan and James' calculations on the yellow pad. So Hillary didn't trust her, Susan thought. Well, she'd be only too happy to give her the documents. She had more files than the bank. She was sick of the paperwork and the responsibility. Let Hillary take it on if she was suddenly so concerned that Susan might...
...Each is supposed to cost a few hundred million dollars at most, and thanks to NEAR that goal, considered highly improbable when it was first proposed five years ago, doesn't seem so absurd. "We've now proved we can get it built and out to the launch pad on time and on budget," says Huntress. "Until it reaches Eros, we can't call it a complete success. But it's looking very good...
Easterns is a three-day meet for the Ivy League plus Army and Navy and is considered a natural launching-pad for swimmers who hope for times low enough to qualify for Nationals...