Word: requester
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Last week the Administration began its campaign on Capitol Hill to replenish the coffers of the International Monetary Fund, which were depleted by its $120 billion bailout of Indonesia, Thailand and South Korea. Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin went to Congress to request an $18 billion boost for the IMF. Getting it will not be easy, since last year Congress rejected a much smaller request...
...Supreme Court rejects Clinton's request for delay in Paula Jones case...
...story in Wednesday's issue incorrectly reported a decision made by an appellate court on Monday in the U.S. government's anti-trust suit against Microsoft Corporation. The U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington granted Microsoft's request for a stay of hearings run by Professor of Law L. Lawrence Lessig, special master for the case. Oral arguments on Lessig's permanent removal will not take place until April...
Starr is certainly taking an equally hard line with the White House. Late Wednesday he rejected its request that he restrict his questioning of top aides, leaving executive privilege as the only stonewall option. This came after his grand jury turned the spotlight on Clinton aide Bayani Nelvis -- who, the Wall Street Journal claims, saw Clinton and Lewinsky alone together in a room adjoining the Oval Office. Nelvis's lawyer, Joseph Small, called the Journal story "absolutely false and irresponsible." The feeding frenzy continues...
...Meanwhile, Jones' attorneys have filed a motion to oppose Clinton attorney Bob Bennett's request to move up the trial date from May to March, and announced they will soon file motions to readmit into Jones' sexual harassment case the evidence related to Monica Lewinsky -- her alleged affair with Clinton, the efforts at getting her a job, the allegations of subornation of perjury and witness tampering --which were excluded from Jones' case by Judge Wright. Jones' lawyers will also ask that all pretrial proceedings in the case be put on hold until April 1, when the status of the criminal...