Word: washingtonization
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RESIGNED. MICHEL CAMDESSUS, 67, managing director of the International Monetary Fund who helped stabilize Mexico and Asia in recent crises; in mid-term, for personal reasons; in Washington...
...lobbying strategies are expanding. Microsoft's tactics range from hiring close pals of several A.G.s to sending a key official to speak to a small town's Chamber of Commerce. State officials tell TIME that the company is also helping fund a new Republican attorneys-general group in Washington...
JAIL BAIT How much crack does it take to get sent up for five years? The Senate held hearings in Washington last week about reducing the minimum-mandatory-sentencing (MMS) guidelines to bring the powder-cocaine limit down from 500 g to 50 g--closer to the 5 g of crack that gets you a nickel...
...Turkey, but his brain trust never debated the wisdom of a schedule that would put him in Athens shortly before Wednesday, Nov. 17. That sensitive anniversary commemorates a 1973 crackdown on pro-democracy students and is traditionally marked by demonstrations against the U.S. Moreover, Greeks are particularly angry at Washington this year over NATO's bombing of Kosovo. Still, "no one believed security conditions were so bad that the President could not come," says a senior American official. U.S. diplomats tried to blame Athens for the scheduling gaffe, insisting Greek Premier COSTAS SIMITIS changed his mind after promising U.S. Ambassador...
Leaking to the press is second nature in Washington, but it's unheard-of in Cairo - and that may be jeopardizing America's key strategic relationship in the Arab world. As National Transportation Safety Board officials worked with their Egyptian counterparts in Cairo to solve the EgyptAir 990 mystery, the Egyptian press Monday took aim at the latest round of leaked revelations concerning the contents of the doomed plane's voice-data recorder. Although the two sides are cooperating closely at the top, press coverage of NTSB leaks - and the Egyptian pooh-poohing of such conjecture - has made life difficult...