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...would ride home with him. Back at the residence, they summoned Eskew and roused Gore's new chief of staff, Charles Burson, from bed. Gore wanted to move the campaign to Nashville, Tenn. Setting up his headquarters on K Street in Washington had been a huge mistake--a symbol of a clueless inside-the-Beltway campaign. But the problem was that no one knew how to get out of the two-year, $60,000-a-month lease. That didn't matter, Gore said; they had to move and shed staff on the way. He was ready with a biblical allusion...
...result, Sidanko's most prodigious subsidiary was declared bankrupt and sold for a song to a rival, the Tyumen Oil Co. (TNK). BP Amoco vehemently objected and in late December reached a tentative settlement with TNK. But the Sidanko affair is still cited in expatriate business circles as a symbol of the hurdles foreigners face in Russia...
Texas Gov. George W. Bush's speech at Bob Jones University has come to be held as a symbol of intolerance and bigotry that his opponents can wield against him at will. Prior to New Hampshire, Dubya had tried to remain moderate, but his loss forced him to veer to the right in order to shore up his nomination. Rather than lean to the far right, Dubya chose more of an all out sprint. This tendency of the Republican Party to force its candidates to move to the right during the primaries has been its method of choice in recent...
...such instance, she said, involved a student in Utah who was sent home from school for wearing a supposed gang symbol--a shirt with the word "Vegan...
...many critics, however, Ritalin has become a symbol of everything that is wrong with our overdiagnosed and overprescribed society. Having ants in your pants is part of a healthy, normal childhood, they say. Why are we drugging our kids at younger and younger ages...