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Phenom, 26, was not giving the rep the brush-off. She did not have $8. She had $6--a neatly folded $5 bill and a one--tucked inside her jeans pocket. That was the Cochran family's nest...
...furor over the proposed legislation goes a long way to dispel the myth that Hong Kong people are only worried about their pocket books. However, they have more than adequate reason to be worried about money matters as well. Back in 1997, Donald Tsang, the then financial secretary and now number two in the administration, assured Hong Kongers that the worst of the financial crisis would be over by the end of the year. And that Hong Kong was likely to fare better than other Asian countries caught in the financial whirlwind. Instead, the crisis got a lot worse...
...overwhelming majority of Native Americans like Hollow Horn aren't benefiting from the Indian casino boom, who is? In many cases, the big winners are non-Indian investors, some of whom pocket more than 40% of an Indian casino's profits. Actually, calling these people investors understates their role. They often serve as master strategists who draw up the plans and then underwrite the total cost of bringing a casino online: ferreting out an amenable tribe, paying a signing bonus, picking up tribal expenses and paying the salaries of the tribe's officials, all of this before a spade...
...list--such as what the Iraqis did with tons of mustard-gas materials that have not been accounted for--and, just as important, what is not on the list. It will measure Iraq's veracity by comparing its list with the one the CIA has in its pocket. Administration officials, from the President on down, continued to insist last week that they had "solid" evidence--which they had never made public--that Saddam did too have an extensive armory for mass murder. U.N. officials have repeatedly asked Bush to make that intelligence available to help the inspectors. The U.S., which...
...list-such as what the Iraqis did with tons of mustard-gas materials that have not been accounted for-and, just as important, what is not on the list. It will measure Iraq's veracity by comparing its list with the one the cia has in its pocket. Administration officials, from the President on down, continued to insist last week that they had "solid" evidence-which they had never made public-that Saddam did too have an extensive armory for mass murder. U.N. officials have repeatedly asked Bush to make that intelligence available to help the inspectors...