Word: took
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...taken 55 days of careful feelers, quiet phone calls and very secret meetings to get her lawyers into that Manhattan apartment. It took even more hand holding to get Monica there, given her feelings about the prosecutors who had accosted her in a Virginia hotel six months before. It was no accident that neither Starr himself nor his bulldog lieutenants were in New York last Monday morning. Through the next five hours of dignified conversation, she told the new, kinder and gentler team everything. But it was the way she told them that mattered just as much. "I think they...
...Washington]," cracking everyone up. Eager to put Monica at ease, the lawyers had Hoffmann gently guide her through her story as though they were in court. The account was straightforward, dispassionate, designed to be impressive, a preview of what she would be like in the grand jury. That took about 35 minutes. Then Starr's three lawyers took turns asking questions. "It was a real dance," a Starr official said. "We were very concerned how she viewed us. We had to make sure she felt comfortable with us and that we felt comfortable with...
...this buyout binge, it also allowed other competitors, including cable-TV firms, to enter the business. And on Wall Street, the big phone mergers are now regarded with skepticism (and some concern that Washington will intervene). Both GTE and Bell Atlantic stocks slipped last week. AT&T--which took a hit after announcing a merger with TCI--ticked up after the British Telecom deal...
With no massive winners since May, when an Illinois couple took home a $195 million jackpot, the purse swelled from an initial $10 million on May 27 to $100 million by July 25 and finally to $295.7 million by last Wednesday's drawing, making the lottery offering the biggest ever in the world...
...Greenwich, owner Bill Summa witnessed a man of about 60, who had been waiting in line at least an hour in 95[degree] heat, keel over onto the sidewalk. An ambulance came, but the man refused to leave the line without buying $15 worth of tickets first. "I took his money, and then, and only then, did he get in the ambulance to go to the hospital," recounts Summa, who worked 17-hour days in recent weeks, dispensing 80,000 Powerball tickets...