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...Conoco may have been guilty of a little soft-pedaling of its own, hoping to slip a deal through first and worry about government approval later. When pressed by TIME to name which State Department members the company had consulted, Conoco officials refused to name them. According to two people in the room, Conoco president Constantine Nicandros told State Department officials at their meeting last week: "We always knew the Administration would be opposed to the deal. But everyone acknowledged that it would not violate...
...choice of rooming partner. "I guess you could call it numerology," says first-year Alex Trias. Trias says she consulted horoscopes and lucky numbers in her quest for the right roommate. "Two people in our blocking group are Scorpios, and our lucky numbers are eight. We decided which housing slip to fill out by that number...
...father. But during the press conference that day at the Berto Center, the Bulls' training facility in Deerfield, Illinois, Jordan surmised that he might return "if the urge comes back, if the Bulls will have me and David Stern lets me back in the league." Sometimes a Freudian slip is just a Freudian slip, but why would the commissioner have a say as to when Jordan could come back if he didn't have a say in his retirement...
...cuts the Republicans propose would allow children to slip through the cracks and go hungry. It doesn't take much thought to realize that eating well directly correlates with academic performance and alertness. Nor does it take much compassion to understand that making children shoulder the brunt of cuts borders on the inhumane. It simply doesn't make sense to cut a program that so clearly affects the future of the nation...
...next time you go to your favorite restaurant, quietly instruct the waitress that your girlfriend observes special dietary restrictions: the olives that accompany her martini must be steeped in oil. This way, when she furtively tries to insert them into her nostrils, their well-greased skins will slip right back out. She will soon surrender, and will likely order whiskey sours from then...