Word: taping
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...BLAME? We need to reduce bureaucracy and red tape...
...year-old former economics professor in order to turn popular opinion against her. The Senate is investigating allegations that Arroyo's husband, son and brother-in-law were involved in an illegal gambling racket?allegations that they have denied. And the House of Representatives has started hearings about the tape. There might well be another scandal or two along the way, made public at what Arroyo's enemies deem a vulnerable moment for her. Then, her opponents hope (and the palace fears), indignation will be whipped up through protests, aided by leftist groups and possibly the Roman Catholic Church...
...declare martial law on or before June 21 ... Stock up on water and groceries"?and a confusion that could eventually prove truly dangerous. The spurious warnings that the sky is falling mask the fact that Arroyo does indeed have lots of enemies. The public now has access to a tape-recorded telephone conversation of Arroyo allegedly discussing the manipulation of votes with an election-commission official after last year's presidential poll. If authentic, it would be a grave abuse of power. Arroyo refuses to comment on whether one of the voices on the tape is hers, and the presidential...
...cold: Estrada's allies; Poe's supporters; the Marcos family; and even Arroyo's former Executive Secretary Renato de Villa, a onetime armed forces Chief of Staff and Defense Secretary who last week called for a "truth commission" to be set up to investigate the so-called Gloriagate tape. A lot of them don't want to wait for the next presidential election, due in 2010, for a shot at power. Their main goal is to seek skeletons in the administration's closet, or, as the palace asserts, fabricate scandals...
...Dotto and dozens of pitchmen like him are inundating television airwaves and packing conference halls across the U.S. with their gospel of "no money down." The seminars and TV programs are teasers for the real product: packages of booklets and tape cassettes that explain in more detail how to start from scratch in real estate. At about $300 and up, these home-study courses have earned millions of dollars for the gurus and probably started a few graduates on the path to success. But many mortgage lenders and real estate brokers, irritated by shaky financing schemes proposed to them...