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Connor said news accounts of an analogous incident from Perot's past helped prompt his public charges. In the mid-1980s, when Perot was feuding with Richard Armitage, then Assistant Secretary of Defense, the Texan tried to convince Washington reporters that the U.S. Defense Department official was in no position to press the Vietnamese on MIAS. Perot's weapon: an old snapshot of Armitage at a party with several men and women, one of whom he alleged was Armitage's Vietnamese girlfriend...
...island he views as a refuge is for them an intellectual prison, cut off from stimulus and change. By the end of the show, the rebel ex-hippie has talked himself out of a job but is convinced that his firing is for the best, because it will prompt the children to leave and grow. Onstage he departs vowing to become the world's greatest teacher. In life he went on to grace the best-seller lists and the movies (The Great Santini, The Prince of Tides and 1974's Conrack, starring Jon Voight...
...seen delivering what appears to be one kick to King at a key moment in the assault. It comes about midway through the episode, at a point when King appears to have been lying still, facedown on the ground, for several seconds. Briseno's apparent kick appears to prompt King into groggy motion again, which sets off another flurry of pounding from Officers Laurence Powell and Timothy Wind. Briseno's lawyer, John Barnett, contended that his client had not kicked King but merely put his foot on the man's neck to hold him down so the beating would stop...
Epps says a shift to co-ed final clubs--which some clubs have considered in recent years--would prompt the University to "reassess" its position...
...sure, there are few other major differences between the Clinton and Tsongas visions. Both would provide tax credits for research and development, both support some version of free trade that would avoid the protectionist wars other candidates might prompt, both are committed to reducing the deficit. In addition, both are solidly pro-choice and both offer similar environmental and foreign affairs policies...