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Money is a lubricant that helps spin the wheels of government, but most politicians are discreet about how liberally the grease gets spread around. That's why it was so shocking when three of India's opposition-party lawmakers recently took the floor of India's Parliament, unzipped a black leather bag and, with TV cameras rolling, hauled out stacks of 1,000-rupee notes. The money, they claimed, represented bribes they had been offered by allies of the country's ruling Congress Party to withhold their ballots in a crucial July 22 vote of confidence. While allegations of "suitcase...
...executive: ''The single most important thing you need is content designed for the consumer marketplace, and they ((Bell Atlantic and TCI)) don't have it.'' Whether the new Bell Atlantic actually comes into being depends on regulators in Washington. To help win approval of the deal, TCI plans to spin + off cable systems that it owns in Bell Atlantic's territory, even though the Baby Bell won a federal-court ruling in Virginia last summer that allows it to send movies over its telephone lines there. (The Justice Department said last week that it will appeal the decision.) Meanwhile...
...straight, towering ball flight that has come to characterize the modern game. Norman's combination of altitude and distance allowed him to be the first to move successfully from a golf ball made of Balata rubber to two- and three-piece synthetic balls that offered greater distance but less spin - a change as revolutionary to golf as metal racquets were to tennis...
...they are to keep their jobs, Singh and other Congress Party members have to convince voters, as well as lawmakers who are sitting on the fence, that the leadership hasn't sold out and turned India into a U.S. pawn. The challenge is to spin the nuclear deal as necessary for the country's continued prosperity - and as a bellwether signaling India's rising stature in the global community. The agreement, writes columnist Seema Chishti in the Indian Express newspaper, is a step toward "deciding what kind of India would rise to engage with the rest of the world...
...Transportation and FAA officials, I realized there was no charitable way to characterize what they were doing--they were simply lying to the public about ValuJet's record. It was not the first time I had seen the department react to a plane crash with a blitz of political spin control. But this time their overstatement and vehemence left me outraged...