Word: stingingly
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...always borne a resemblance to Fredo Corleone, the hapless brother in The Godfather. Sources tell TIME that more than a year ago, after the FBI learned of Roger's attempts to influence the U.S. Parole Commission on behalf of heroin trafficker Rosario Gambino, the bureau wanted to run a sting on the President's half brother. The investigation petered out. Sources also say that J.T. Lundy, former head of Calumet Farms, which employed Roger following his release from prison in 1986, offered him stock in a Venezuelan coal deal in return for help with legal problems. (Lundy was convicted...
...More than a year ago, sources told TIME, the FBI learned of Clinton's efforts with the parole board. Suspicious of his motives, agents wanted to set up a sting operation. Members of the Clinton-appointed Parole Commission are said to have asked Justice Department officials to nix the FBI probe. The Department refused, but that investigation petered out anyway...
Even if federal regulators take some of the sting out of California's energy prices, tight supplies and high temperatures will ensure that sporadic blackouts continue. It's hard to tell who will have the hotter summer--Californians, their Governor, energy executives or George W. Bush...
Anyone who has paid more than $2 a gal. for gas or pondered an electricity bill lately might doubt that the U.S. energy crunch could be easing. Energy inflation in the past year has hit the economy like a slap in the face, and the sting has lingered. Collectively, we've spent $28.2 billion more on natural gas and electricity in the first quarter of this year than in the same period last year, money we could have used to buy other things that keep an economy going. But as more companies bring fuel supplies and power plants online...
Anyone who has paid more than $2 a gal. for gas or pondered an electricity bill lately might doubt that the U.S. energy crunch could be easing. Energy inflation in the past year has hit the economy like a slap in the face, and the sting has lingered. Collectively, we've spent $28.2 billion more on natural gas and electricity in the first quarter of this year than in the same period last year, money we could have used to buy other things that keep an economy going. But as more companies bring fuel supplies and power plants online...