Word: showdown
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DIED. JOHNNY COPELAND, 60, the Texas Twister blues guitarist who earned his nickname for his energetic play and roof-raising vocals; after his eighth open-heart surgery; in New York City. He won a 1986 Grammy for collaborating on the electrifying album Showdown...
Officials said HIID is being caught in a political showdown. Shleifer said he was being unfairly targeted, adding that he was caught "in the middle of a battle between Russian politicians...
...Public Enemy No. 1, John Dillinger, in 1934; in Southbury, Connecticut. A minor bureau clerk whose on-the-diamond skills got noticed by baseball fanatic J. Edgar Hoover, Connor was drafted as a special agent, and ended up stationed in a Chicago alley during Dillinger's final and fatal showdown...
First among Clinton's goals: to balance the budget. But with Republicans controlling Congress, any deal must come at least partly on their terms. Clinton this month offered to curb anticipated Medicare spending by an additional $18 billion, moving well toward the g.o.p. position in last year's showdown. For congressional Democrats, this amounted to an act of betrayal. Come 2000, and a Democratic challenger like, say, House minority leader Dick Gephardt might well recycle the devastating Medicare scare ads of 1996, this time aimed at the Vice President...
...Idaho wound up in a standoff against federal agents. Vicki Weaver and her teenage son were shot to death; her husband Randy Weaver collected $3 million in a wrongful-death suit and became a martyr in the militants' crusade against encroaching law-enforcement agencies. Six officials connected with the showdown were disciplined for "inadequate performance, improper judgment, neglect of duty," even though investigators found no actual misconduct. That might not have gone down so badly had Freeh not promoted as his No. 2 the supervisor of the whole operation, Larry Potts. Only when Justice Department officials intervened with news that...