Word: partly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Like him or not, Giuliani is who he is. Which may be part of the reason the mayor, despite growing Rudy fatigue, now leads Clinton among such crucial voter blocs as suburbanites and women. The numbers will change, her advisers promise, after she declares her candidacy and moves to the state early next year. But sometimes you wonder whether Clinton should start believing those rumors...
NTSB investigators have detected no evidence of a mechanical malfunction or a weather-related cause for the crash. If there was some mysterious emergency, the response from the cockpit is still baffling. According to the voice recording, a relief pilot identified as Gamil el-Batouti, who normally formed part of the "cruise crew" that spells the pilot and co-pilot during the long, dull hours of an ocean crossing, asked to begin his shift early, barely half an hour into the flight. The captain, 57-year-old veteran pilot Ahmed el-Habashi, agreed to let the highly experienced el-Batouti...
...recover the cost of deploying the machines. "In San Francisco," says Bank of America spokesman Peter Magnani, "there is no charge 80% of the time when someone puts a card in a B. of A. machine." Moreover, he says, the cost of the transaction is just a small part of the bank's expenses, which include purchasing, installing and maintaining the machines as well as paying rent at nonbank locations. "Banks are being singled out for special treatment," Magnani says. "What other industry has been told it can't charge for products and services?" Concurs Robert Litan, a Brookings Institution...
...Extra-Terrestrial. The last item has an asking price of $45,000. In explaining the raid on her attic, Jaid said, "Drew is such a special, amazing, magical person. I decided to put some of her things up on the website to allow people to be a part of Drew's life." Couldn't she just suggest they see some of Drew's movies instead...
...Yeltsin, the Russian President, isn't going to last forever, no matter how many Texas heart surgeons we send over there. And when he goes, oh boy. Given the Russian proclivity for the Strong Man, we're bound to end up with Ivan the Terrible, Part...