Word: primes
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...mean, Elton Brand is a superstar-o-rama! He's a prime-time-player, baby...
Karamanlis, a prime minister hopeful in 2000, outlined a definitive agenda for Greece's domestic and international future to an audience of about 100 students and community members...
...perhaps the theory is right. Some 70 million Americans, after all, watched Lewinsky on 20/20. (ABC called it the most watched "news" show ever, though it didn't beat Oprah's prime-time tete-a-tete with Michael Jackson, which the network somehow doesn't count as news in a world in which Monica does.) At least in its first days, the book was making the splash its publishers paid for. It seems we do in fact want to see more of Lewinsky, even if seeing her makes us feel a little dirty. Even the world's most expensive...
...Bill Clinton could do was apologize, "The U.S.," he declared, "is responsible for this terrible tragedy." But his guest was implacable. "We shall say we are satisfied when whoever is responsible for what happened is found guilty and punished," said Italian Prime Minister Massimo D'Alema. The day before, a military jury in Camp Lejeune, N.C., had acquitted Captain Richard Ashby, a U.S. Marine pilot whose EA-6B warplane severed a ski gondola in the Italian Alps on Feb. 3, 1998, sending 20 Europeans to their death...
...ambiguous and frustrating as the case. Former French health secretary Edmond Herv?'s conviction on manslaughter charges in the long-running tainted-blood case was tempered by a suspended sentence, on the grounds that he had already been punished enough over the five years of the trial. Former prime minister Laurent Fabius and former social affairs minister Georgina Dufoix were acquitted for their involvement in the scandal, in which some 4,400 individuals were infected with HIV from tainted blood productsin 1985; 40 percent of those people have already died. A not guilty verdict had been anticipated, according to TIME...