Word: pardons
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Pardon me? Bill Clinton sure saved the worst for last by pardoning Marc Rich, a fugitive commodities trader who, in 1983, skipped out on 51 counts of tax evasion and racketeering, which included trading with Iran during the hostage crisis. Given the $1 million-plus that Rich's ex-wife donated to a certain Arkansan's presidential library, it will now be able to afford some 40,000 copies of the former President's autobiography, due out next year
...corporate market is merely a prelude to the battle to come. "The consumer market is where the big money is," says Michael Schmertzler, a Credit Suisse First Boston managing director and, with Doerr, Segway's other major financial backer. "But this is about more than money for Dean. Pardon the cliche, but he really does want to change the world...
...Walter F. Mondale, a few students felt that it was appropriate to turn up, albeit 50 minutes late, in exercise clothes as “they had just come from the Mac.” That Harvard students should feel comfortable sandwiching—if you’ll pardon the pun—such a lunch between a workout and a section is a sign of how spoiled...
DIED. HARRISON WILLIAMS, 81, New Jersey's only Democratic Senator to have been elected to four terms, who lobbied for labor and education before going to prison for involvement in the 1981 Abscam scandal; of heart disease; in Denville, N.J. Last year President Clinton rejected his pardon request...
...corporate market is merely a prelude to the battle to come. "The consumer market is where the big money is," says Michael Schmertzler, a Credit Suisse First Boston managing director and, with Doerr, Segway's other major financial backer. "But this is about more than money for Dean. Pardon the cliche, but he really does want to change the world...