Word: whiting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...company's website. And it has undertaken an aggressive state-level lobbying campaign--mindful, perhaps, that the suit against it is being pressed by 19 state attorneys general. Another political variable that argues for Microsoft to stall for time: the upcoming presidential race. If the Republicans take the White House, they may be willing to settle on more favorable terms than the Klein brigades would...
Citi is now implementing what is probably one of the most aggressive anti-money-laundering programs in the U.S. banking industry. But its past missteps could lead to a tightening of money-laundering statutes on Capitol Hill. The company is taking no chances and has hired Boyden Gray, White House counsel in the Bush Administration, to keep legislators from getting too busy. Gray sent a letter to the Senate subcommittee arguing that it lacked jurisdiction to investigate. A second letter pleaded that Reed should not have to testify. Both requests were quickly denied...
...Microsoft's genetic self-assurance was a video press release the company rushed on the air immediately after the ruling came down. "We hope we can find a way," Gates declared, "to resolve this and put it behind us." For a moment, he seemed to be waving the white flag of settlement...
...Thursday another fullback, Eulices Sierra, asked Cruz to the dance. That night she found a sassy little purple number with a sheer top. And then at halftime of the game on Friday, the princess in shoulder pads traded her helmet for a crown and climbed into a white Mazda Miata convertible for the parade of queen candidates. She looked stunning, if a little sweaty...
...money they have been denied: paying Wolf $15,000 a month. That amount was reduced to $5,000 only when campaign manager DONNA BRAZILE found out about it. "Some of the people who were most concerned were those who were working hardest for the campaign," says a White House official, who was drafted by the campaign to call around and soothe injured feelings...