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...found on his clothes, knife and earplugs when he was arrested. The case was not airtight--no one testified to seeing McVeigh make the bomb or seeing him at the crime scene--but the government made a very powerful presentation. To counter it, Jones had three strategies: raise the specter of a "real" bomber, or bombers, who had not been caught, attack the credibility of the Fortiers and challenge the forensics evidence...
Having added hundreds of stores year after year, McDonald's is finding the specter of reaching market saturation very real. Fortunately, overseas sales are robust and last year kicked in 59% of the company's $2.6 billion in operating income. But in the U.S. the $103 billion-a-year fast-food industry is slowing down, and McDonald's, far and away the leader, is feeling the loss of momentum hardest. Its stock has been a notable laggard, returning a paltry 1.2% to investors last year...
...about the hearings, and only the Washington Post covered his testimony in detail. Though the Los Angeles Times reported some of what Blum had to say in an earlier story, the noncoverage of the Senate hearing, says Peter Kornbluh, of the National Security Archives, based in Washington, "raised the specter of a government-media collaboration to bury the contra-cocaine story...
...immunity negotiations between cigarette makers and state attorneys general. The industry would pay a large sum, perhaps as much as $300 billion, and agree to numerous restrictions on advertising and sales in order to settle suits by 24 states. With the verdict, Big Tobacco also temporarily shooed away the specter of Norwood "Woody" Wilner, who to date has won the only cash award from a tobacco company, a $750,000 judgment from Brown & Williamson for another Jacksonville smoker who developed lung cancer. That case, as well as this one, is on appeal. Afterward, a tearful Dana Raulerson...
There's a lot to overcome in deciding to donate your organs: the specter of death for one thing, signing documents for another. This week three members of Congress who cover all the organ-donation bases--Senator Mike DeWine, who made the issue his top priority after having to make a split-second decision to donate the organs of his 22-year-old daughter killed in a car accident in 1993; Senator Bill Frist, a surgeon who actually did transplants; and Representative Joe Moakley, who walks the halls of Congress thanks to a donated liver--will launch National Organ...