Word: winging
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...opponent--can do for a politician's fortunes. At age 63, Cardenas was back in the firmament last week as he and his Party of the Democratic Revolution (P.R.D.) wrested the Mexico City mayor's office from the P.R.I. by a vote of 47% to 26%, with the right-wing National Action Party polling 16%. Now Cardenas is once more being held up as the man who, in the presidential vote of 2000, can end the P.R.I.'s reign as the world's longest-ruling political party...
...costs thousands of dollars a year to keep a person in jail. Those who advocate life imprisonment should pay for it out of their own pocket. I would rather spend my tax dollars on something productive for society, such as a new hospital wing, better roads or books for my kid's school. If I want a roof over my head, I have to come up with the money for it. Why should I have to pay for a murderer's amenities for life? TOM BRADFORD McCall, Idaho...
LONDON: McDonald's libel case against two leaflet-distributing vegetarians ended in victory today after a judge ruled their criticism of the burger giant amounted to slander. The lawsuit, the longest ever waged in an English court, was directed against two members of the left-wing group London Greenpeace (not related to Greenpeace International) who handed out anti-McDonald's pamphlets outside its restaurants in Britain. McDonald's said the pamphlets, which accuse the burger giant of pushing unhealthy food and mistreating its employees, were false and harmful to its reputation. The defendants, Dave Morris and Helen Steel, fought...
...Fowler to facilitate a National Security Council meeting for Tamraz, who was seeking the U.S.'s blessing for his project. Republicans hoped that juicy details, still buried in White House files, would show "how the system went awry," in the words of one. On Tuesday night the West Wing "push-out" squad told reporters that while Tamraz failed to win U.S. support, he got far on his campaign connections. After meeting Tamraz at a March 1996 fund-raising event, Clinton asked counselor Mack McClarty to "follow up" on the oil financier's proposal. Later an Energy Department official interceded with...
...hoping that unhappy voters would give him a new mandate to push ahead on the tough economic reforms aimed at making his country ready to join the European common currency in 1999. But the French instead took the opportunity to slap Chirac and his austerity program, demolishing the right-wing majority in the National Assembly and installing rival Socialist Lionel Jospin as Prime Minister. Now the white-haired, square-jawed Jospin will share power with Chirac in an arrangement the French charmingly call "cohabitation...