Word: rule
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...discussing a temporary suspension of the sanctions on Libya as a show of good faith," he says, "and that would probably be enough to satisfy Ghaddafi." But the ever-elusive Muammar has left himself an out. "So far, he's only promised that he would let the Libyan courts rule on the extradition," says Stogel. "And we all know which way that would come...
...inflation and interest rates help explain these valuations. But even the trusty "rule of 20," which takes inflation into account, has been trashed. The rule holds that the market P/E plus the rate of inflation should total about 20, as it has for most of the past 40 years. With inflation running at 1.7%, today's reading is 23, and when calculated using reported rather than expected earnings, it jumps to 29--well above the 26 reached on that basis just before the 1987 crash, notes analyst Richard Bernstein at Merrill Lynch...
...surprisingly, Microsoft was furious. "This is no way to run a railroad," said Charles "Rick" Rule, a former Justice Department enforcer turned Microsoft legal adviser. The software billionaire was due to be deposed by the DOJ Wednesday at his Redmond campus, but that's likely to be delayed until all the logistics can be ironed out. And boy, are there ever logistics -- how many people to admit and the thorny issue of ordering everyone out when Gates starts talking about company secrets. As Rule complains, "any level-headed person in the DOJ should see the need to protect confidentiality." Given...
...Lewinsky, she told the grand jury and later Newsweek that during a hike through the Catskills on Memorial Day weekend in 1996, Lewinsky divulged that while she and the President shared bouts of "intimate touching" near the Oval Office and some heated late-night phone calls, as a rule they stopped short of sexual climax. It was Clinton's preference. "It was basically like foreplay," Young concluded. "Nothing was ever taken to completion." The President "felt it really wasn't oral sex if it wasn't completed...
...improve relations? Political warfare at home may be the explanation. The country's supreme leader, Ayatullah Ali Khamenei, controls the missile program, and he has been maneuvering to weaken Khatami ever since voters elected him a year ago on a promise to relax the government's strict Islamic rule...