Word: trades
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Snowe--who was elected to the Senate in 1994--has focused on deficit reduction, health care, trade issues and women's issues during her career. In January, Snowe was appointed to the Armed Services Committee, filling a spot vacated by former Sen. William Cohen (R-Maine), who vacated his Senate seat to become the secretary of defense...
That's precisely what has Nixon fighting mad. He contrasts today's anything-goes Web gambling joints with the tightly regulated riverboat casinos plying their trade on the Missouri and Mississippi rivers. "Any 12-year-old with a credit card can play blackjack on the Internet," he says. "We don't know who owns these companies, what the odds are, whether winners will ever collect. We know nothing...
...achieved international fame and fortune peddling their respective though vastly different habit-forming products, seem to have been destined for a literary rendezvous. But where? Escobar and his remorseless crew are too malignant for Garcia Marquez's familiar magic realism. Fortunately, the author learned the writer's trade in journalism, where the best editorial advice still comes from Hamlet's mother: "More matter, with less...
This month the Greenpeace environmental group and Britain's Cooperative Bank created the world's first biodegradable credit card. Made of a naturally occurring plastic, the card takes only a few weeks to disintegrate in ordinary compost. Trade-named Biopol, the plastic is extracted from a microorganism. Monsanto, which makes Biopol, is developing ways of inserting the microorganism's metabolic process into plants through biotechnology...
...worth of stock in the couple's Dynamic Energy Resources Inc., a separate $160,000 payment and a golf-club membership. With the pressure on him, say close observers of the proceedings, Brown may be tempted to cut his own deal, and he just may have information to trade on former D.N.C. official MARVIN ROSEN, who was at the controls of the runaway Democratic fund-raising machine during the '96 election, was a lobbyist at the same firm as Brown and was also a Kennedy confidant. The Lums have tales to tell about many other figures in the fund-raising...