Word: pipeful
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...House officials say. The White House responded to the note Thursday by repeating the President's previous assertions that he does not recall making telephone solicitations from the executive mansion, but cannot rule out the possibility. In the meantime, until a clarification of the existing law comes down the pipe, the White House appears content to play legal hopscotch. While White House counsel reportedly advised employees not to make any phone solicitations from federal property, Gore has said he understood they were legal if made with a political credit card...
Comcast needs a bigger pipeline than conventional cable--called broadband in the industry--to handle that load, and Microsoft can help finance it. "By developing a broadband pipe, connecting it to a state-of-the-art chip and supplying the latest version of software, we will enhance both TV and the PC," says Roberts. To follow its own growth trajectory, Microsoft needs broadband to transmit its multimedia cornucopia of online news, entertainment and shopping. MS money now allows Comcast to accelerate construction of fiber-optic cable to expand high-speed Internet access, develop programs with Microsoft and reduce its debt...
Either multiple students groups, with the support of the University, must make a determined effort to make Springfest big--with lots of available alcohol and several bands over a two or three-day period. Or, if this is a pipe-dream, the Council should bag the whole idea and spend its money on something worthwhile...
DIED. HENRY MUCCI, 88, no-nonsense World War II Army colonel who rescued 513 survivors of the brutal Bataan death march; in Melbourne, Florida. After hearing reports of Japanese atrocities against Allied prisoners in the Philippines, the tough-talking, pipe-smoking Mucci led his Rangers 25 miles behind enemy lines and liberated the emaciated prisoners at Cabanatuan...
...large. Earlier in the day, the pair wounded two dogs in a brief salvo of close-range gunfire after police unleashed a pack of tracking hounds near a campsite less than a mile from the Republic of Texas trailer. Fearing possible booby traps after police discovered more than 60 pipe bombs and 12 gasoline cans in the area, authorities until Monday had conducted their search for the two men primarily by helicopter. Meanwhile, Richard McLaren was formally charged with conspiracy, mail fraud and bank fraud. He faces a maximum of 725 years in prison and $24.25 million in fines...