Word: projecting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...claim that Liberty, IBN and several other enterprises amounted to a Ponzi scheme in which they lost hundreds of thousands of dollars. And they claim in the suit that one of the partners, Robert Kay, told them Tony Rodham and President Clinton "were behind the [IBN] project and that Clinton was going to approach Russian President Boris Yeltsin personally" to support it. Kay and Patarkalishvili could not be reached for comment; Rodham denies saying anything that would lead to such a statement, or knowing about Liberty Bank's problems...
Even if the beast doesn't yield good science, it should yield good TV. The Discovery Channel partly bankrolled the project, and a documentary chronicling the work is scheduled to air March 12. Daily updates are available at the Discovery website discovery.com) Fifteen minutes of fame may take 20,000 years to come along, but come along it nonetheless does...
Call it the Blair God Project. Like the witchy summer hit, The Omega Code, starring Michael York and Casper Van Dien, was made on a modest budget--$7.2 million. And like Blair, it ran a remarkable under-the-radar promotion campaign. But where Blair used the Internet, Omega employed an even more unusual grass roots: it was sold almost exclusively through--and to--the Evangelical Christian community. Crowed producer Matthew Crouch: "I feel we've identified a new consumer group that Hollywood, Wall Street and Madison Avenue don't know exists. We've primed the pump, and there will...
Westfall-Lake and "wellness supervisor" Jill Thieman have spearheaded a pilot project at a gas-gathering and -processing operation in the Four Corners. Some 400 shiftworkers, including field technicians, plant operators, maintenance workers and office staff, receive information about health and safety via an Intranet site, corporate fairs, family events and special classes. Employees can use company-owned vehicles to car-pool (thus minimizing driving fatigue), take time off while at work to exercise briefly on treadmills and stationary bicycles, and use light boxes that are designed to suppress melatonin, which induces sleep. So far, a third of those involved...
Although Panama has no standing army and its 12,000 domestic security personnel would be no match for any serious aggressor, the 1977 treaty also allows the U.S. to intervene militarily if the security of the Canal Zone is threatened. And since Beijing's ability to project military power even as far as Taiwan and the Spratly Islands is looking somewhat questionable, Central America is probably a little out of reach. "We wouldn't have adopted the treaty if it was going to hurt national security," says TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson. "And besides, there's no strategic threat...