Word: roster
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...insiders are Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott, an intellectually gifted friend of the President's; and National Security Adviser Tony Lake, who appears to have the greatest day-to-day influence on Clinton when the subject is foreign affairs. The question, though, is whether anyone from the present roster would be seen as a credible "agent of change," to borrow a favorite Clinton phrase. Leading the list of new-blood types from outside the inner circle...
Nobody knows who these guys are. Unbelievable: the San Jose Sharks have already flashed past Detroit, the Western Conference number-one seed coming into the playoffs, and now they have stolen the home-ice advantage from third-seeded Toronto and what people remember is a roster sounding like a role call from the Russian Republics...
That is, if you want star outfielder Ron Gant with a broken leg due to reckless mountain biking. Anyway, his injury happened just after he signed a unguaranteed contract with Atlanta. So the Cost-conscious Braves (owned by Ted Turner) cut him from the roster...
...source told TIME that two weeks ago Cobain's wife Courtney Love, front woman for the group Hole, gathered doctors and friends together in Seattle, the couple's home, to try to scare Cobain into dealing with his problem; Nirvana's managers even threatened to drop Cobain from their roster unless he got cleaned up. The intervention seemed to work, for Cobain checked into a California treatment center. But according to a missing-persons report filed by his mother, he fled early last week. Seattle police periodically checked Cobain's house, finding no traces of the singer...
That client roster, mixing businesses with government regulators, sometimes led to conflict-of-interest accusations. In 1988 the firm and its insurer paid $3 million to settle a conflict charge stemming from the failure of FirstSouth Savings and Loan. At the insistence of Senate Republicans, the FDIC has reopened a conflict-of-interest investigation involving Madison Guaranty, the failed S&L headed by James McDougal, the Clintons' partner in Whitewater. In 1989 the firm represented the FDIC in a suit against Madison's auditors, despite the fact that, four years earlier, Hillary had dealt with state regulators on Madison...