Word: suited
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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However, the Democrats found ammo in the documents filed by the FEC last week, some of them extraneous to the original dispute but nonetheless problematic for Gingrich. The FEC's suit, filed last year, has alleged that GOPAC, a political-action committee that took in donations from wealthy conservatives, violated federal election laws by actively participating in congressional campaigns in 1989 and '90. GOPAC officials always denied the charge, claiming the committee was dedicated to supporting candidates for only state and local races, which would be outside the realm of federal financial-disclosure rules. The agency probed the matter following...
...filing also raises questions about whether Gingrich went to bat for GOPAC benefactors--potentially explosive suggestions of quid pro quos that Democrats have vowed to make the basis of a new complaint against the Speaker before the House Ethics panel. In any case, the judge in the FEC's suit must now decide whether the agency had sufficiently proved its case without a trial. If so, he could fine GOPAC an amount up to whatever he decides the group poured into federal races, sure to be a complicated calculation...
...turned several times, and then a senior monk withdrew a marker bearing the name of Gyaincain Norbu, 6, who was quickly ushered into the room in golden robes and a yellow silk hat. Norbu was hailed by the monks and by a man dressed incongruously in a Western-style suit: Luo Gan, a senior Chinese official dispatched to oversee the ceremony. Luo later bent forward, shook the boy's hand and said, "Love the country and study hard...
...suit also said the Atomic Energy Commission authorized 3,000 doses of radioactive calcium, but "fewer than 150 doses are accounted for" in public reports, leaving 2,850 does unaccounted for in the records...
...suit filed last week asks for $1 million for suffering and $3 million in punitive damages for each test subject "to deter defendants from ever again using human beings ... as guinea pigs for experimental procedures...