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...addition to pursuing his or her own agenda, the HSA president must select a vice president and the managers of each agency...

Author: By Barbara E. Martinez, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: HSA Board Elects Asst. Manager to Presidency | 10/23/1998 | See Source »

...Only through education can we ward off the almost obvious potential for an increase in fraud in the marketplace," he said. "Giving people the ability to select investment options will provide the unscrupulous with new opportunities to deceive and distort...

Author: By Eric M. Green, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: SEC's Levitt Discusses Challenging Future of Social Security | 10/20/1998 | See Source »

Brady was quick to stress that the prize committee was wise not to select Gerry Adams, the head of Sinn Fein, the political arm of the Irish Republican Army...

Author: By M. DOUGLAS Omalley, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Irish Leader Discusses Peace | 10/19/1998 | See Source »

...when the lawmakers were finished, they had made history in spite of themselves, adding a new member to a very select American club: Andrew Johnson, Richard Nixon and now Bill Clinton. In voting to open a broad impeachment inquiry, the House of Representatives cast Clinton into a tiny subset of American Presidents from which he will never be paroled, even pending good behavior. He became the third Commander in Chief to face the ignominy of an official impeachment investigation--not as bad as Nixon; worse than Johnson, whose impeachment was pure political payback by his cranky congressional opposition. It will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Down In History | 10/19/1998 | See Source »

...those women, says Flynt, whom he's speaking to with his offer: "I'm giving them an upside to coming forward." Flynt has turned for expert help to veteran Washington writer and NPR contributor Rudy Maxa, who flew to Los Angeles last Friday to select the best stories and recruit reporters to pursue them. Maxa says he was lured out of semiscandal retirement by the prospect that some of those discarded on the ash heap of history might emerge to name names. Maxa's claim to fame is exposing former Congressman Wayne Hays and his "assistant" Elizabeth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Indecent Proposal | 10/19/1998 | See Source »

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