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...Shays-Meehan bill has picked up steam in the House of Representatives as investigators have uncovered ever more massive political contributions from Enron. Two hundred and eighteen members of the House bucked the Republican leadership and signed a petition to force a vote on the measure, which would ban millions of dollars in soft money that currently flows to national political parties...
Butyrskaya also wants that distinction. The lanky Muscovite is known to skate spectacular short programs. If she doesn't run out of steam in the 4-min. free program, she has a good chance...
...words from Nokia and Siebel, put the Dow on a 100-point rally that was spreading nicely across the indexes. But by afternoon the nibblers had done their work and the Dow and NASDAQ had given back half the day's gains; another run-up had run out of steam...
...passed," ran the subtitle he appended to an enormous didactic canvas, In the Time of Harmony, 1893-95. "It lies in the future." The picture set out to depict the joys of anarchist cooperation: free love, picnics, games of boule on the beach, farm labor made easy by a steam-powered reaper in the distance. What in fact lay in the future was the trenches of Flanders and the murderous October Revolution. Luckily for him, Signac did not have the gift of prophecy, and even his anarchism belonged to the Belle Epoque...
...only a week after Thanksgiving, and most of the big Oscar engines are still in the roundhouse, gathering steam for their dash to big-time buzz, grosses and Academy glory--or not. But while everyone hovers about them, you should glance over at that sidetrack where a little engine that may not even think it can is getting a head start to the finish line...