Word: versions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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That advice served him well during negotiations that concluded last week with the Senate Commerce Committee's voting 19-1 for a sweeping $506 billion tobacco bill. Although tobacco companies are already threatening legal action and anti-tobacco lawmakers are promising to fight for a tougher bill, some version of the McCain Act will probably pass the full Senate by Memorial Day. If the House follows suit, by year's end the President will be signing the most significant public health legislation in a decade...
...been obscured by his disparate identities--choirboy, volatile romantic, school bully. To those images must now be added the ravages of family turmoil and rootlessness. But was Mitch the instigator of the shootings at Westside Middle School, as Drew's grandfather has cast him? Gretchen Woodard has another version. She told TIME her son says it was Drew who proposed an attack last month. Mitch had said no, Woodard says, but then on the bus ride home from school the afternoon before the fatal assault, Drew approached Mitch again. "Mitch told me he never meant to hurt anybody...
TIME: Is there a part of you that regrets not being able to go to court to try to prove your version of events...
...note to which every American was to fall heir," King said. "Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check; a check which has come back marked 'insufficient funds.'" These were not the words of a cardboard saint advocating a Hallmark card-style version of brotherhood. They were the stinging phrases of a prophet, a man demanding justice not just in the hereafter, but in the here...
...investment fund is involved in a scattering of businesses, but Yan admits that in the future he wants to own and manage his own empire, with his biggest ambitions centered on media and such nonideological magazines as PC World and the Chinese version of Popular Mechanics. And though he has proved a wizard at attracting capital, Yan has yet to prove himself as a manager. He has had a hard time attracting and retaining foreign managers, something that will be essential if Richina is to continue growing...