Word: tape
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...stump speech to an empty TV studio. He wasn't keen about the idea-and he didn't deliver it very well. But his aides first tested the speech's broad themes with a focus group of Republican men and women in Fredericksburg, Virginia. Next they showed the tape to a "dial group'' of 30 Republicans -- some committed to Dole, some not -- in Cobb County, Georgia. Each was given a hand-held dial to register his or her approval of key passages; all voted 80% approval or more. Officials at other campaigns scoff at the front runner's overcalibration...
...first time I heard the demo, I thought 'Uh-oh, the Monkees,'" says PHIL SOLEM, one-half of the pop duo the Rembrandts. He was listening to a tape of the theme song for a TV show called Friends, which he and Danny Wilde had been asked to record. But after they added their two cents to the song, he got to like it. So did a Nashville disk jockey, who put the 42-second clip from the hit show on the air. The resulting clamor convinced the heretofore subcult-following duo that they ought to add the song...
...guilty to lesser charges of having knowledge of the conspiracy and lying to federal officials. One possible stumbling block to a plea bargain is Fortier's perceived weaknesses as a witness. "We can't just put him on the stand," the official said. "The defense will show the CNN tape of him saying McVeigh had nothing to do with it, and the jury will conclude he was lying at least once."Oklahoma Explosion Page
...obsessed with the case since 1986, taking it as a personal crusade. In fact, they became participants in it. After Glenn Stevens, one of the prosecutors (played in the film by Joe Urla), quit the case because he felt the McMartins were being unfairly targeted, Myra Mann began to tape what would turn out to be 30 hours of interviews with him. She eventually turned over the tapes to the court and was called in to testify about them in a pretrial hearing. She wound up spending every day of the two trials (which spanned three years) in court...
...would try toease the painwith $350 billion in tax breaks for families, corporations and investors. Said the plan's chief architect,House Budget Committee Chairman John Kasich(R-Ohio): "The 21st century is about the power of the individual, not the power of bureaucracy or the power of red tape...