Word: proceeds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Christopher also favored expansion. But the Pentagon wanted no part of a larger, more costly alliance, and Strobe Talbott, Christopher's top Russia expert and now Deputy Secretary of State, feared that a rush to admit new members would anger Moscow. After months of wrangling, the advisers agreed to proceed cautiously, and Clinton announced in a Prague speech in January 1994 that the question was no longer if NATO would expand but when...
LITTLE ROCK: After years of delaying actions until a recent Supreme Court ruling that Paula Jones could proceed with her sexual harassment case, President Clinton's lawyer Bob Bennett has abruptly changed course and come out swinging. Late Thursday he asked an Arkansas court to hold a conference to set a trial date and filed the first formal response to the suit, in which Clinton said he did not remember ever meeting Jones and denied her claim he harassed her during an Arkansas state economic conference. Covering all the legal bases, the filing said that even if Clinton did meet...
...fellow lawyer--RJR's CEO Steven Goldstone, who before taking over the company was its general counsel and a litigator at the New York law firm of Davis Polk & Wardwell. Negotiated settlements were not unknown to him, and Moore had made it clear that the talks could not proceed without tobacco's top officers. Goldstone soon persuaded Philip Morris CEO Geoffrey Bible to have a sit-down with the opposition...
...turned to his family and appeared to mouth the words ?it?s all right.? He then made the peace sign. Having been sentenced to death for the murders of eight federal employees, he will next stand trial in Oklahoma for killing 160 other people that day. As his appeals proceed, at least five years are likely to pass before he can be sent to Terre Haute, Indiana, site of the only federal execution chamber. For now, Dr. Paul Heath, leader of the Murrah Building Survivors Association, summed up his reaction to today?s verdict: "Justice, justice, justice...
...national minimum drinking age of 21, has not changed for the better the cultural mores of those toward whom the law is geared. Rather, it has served to infantilize the entire college-aged population and create taboos which make alcohol all the more desirable. The best way to proceed is a policy of leniency on the part of the Cambridge Licensing Commission and the Alcohol and Beverage Control Commission. Punishing college students will not force them to conform to legal norms, primarily because social norms, often encourage an undergraduate drinking culture. (Sept...