Word: speaker
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...more ingenious was the way House Speaker Jim Wright skirted the already generous congressional ceiling on outside income. Not content with mere honorariums, Wright arranged an unusual sweetheart deal: a supporter published one of Wright's books, sold most of the copies in bulk to groups like the Teamsters, and then handed over 55% of the proceeds (nearly $60,000) to the Speaker as royalties. This daisy chain was probably legal, but clearly unsavory. It is among a welter of charges against Wright contained in a voluminous report now being studied by the House Ethics Committee. Few expect more than...
...idea of politicians as leaders in the ecology movement seems strange, even more surprising is who agreed to be the closing speaker at the London conference: Margaret Thatcher. Though she has long been accused of being insensitive to environmental issues, the Prime Minister promised last week that Britain will push manufacturers to eliminate chlorofluorocarbons from new refrigerators -- evidence that these days even the most conservative leaders are worried about the environment...
...last time the Central American governments coordinated a peace negotiation was in 1987 in Guatemala, when both the Reagan Administration and the Democratic Speaker of the House were concocting their own plans for the region. The regional agreement, known as the Arias Plan, was met with distrust and discouragement from the Republicans...
Boom-car buffs emphasize that they use the latest digital technology to achieve quality in their sound, not just quantity. "It is an art form to manage a car interior sonically," says Steve Seidl, who outfits boom cars at Speaker Warehouse in Hollywood, Fla. "We use a spectrum analyzer to measure the 'pink noise' in the car or to focus the sound on the driver...
...were these unnamed liberals in addition to Khamenei? One was certainly parliamentary Speaker Hashemi Rafsanjani, who has hinted that Iran should have ended the war in 1982, after driving the invading Iraqis out of its territory. Within days, he too chimed in with an attack on the West. "We know what our duty is regarding those who are a partner in cursing the Prophet," declared Rafsanjani. "The ground has been laid for a vast battle between Islam on the one hand, and paganism and arrogance on the other." But he tried to forestall stronger reprisals from Europe in case anything...