Article: Big sable price drop disputed. (at the Leningrad International Fur Auction)

Article: CRIME DROP DISPUTED.(NEWS)(Brief Article)
The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH);  September 24, 1996 ;     346 words ...WASHINGTON -- The Clinton campaign got a wonderful piece of ''news'' last week: Violent crime had plunged an amazing 9 percent, and the number of rapes had dropped by twice that - 18 percent. But now it turns out that some of the results cited are so tenuous that the survey's chief government

Article: GOP will drop disputed tax provision.(News)
St Louis Post-Dispatch (MO);  November 23, 2004 ;     700+ words ...Byline: THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON -- Whoever wrote a legislative provision to give more members of Congress access to income tax records should be tracked down and held to account, a Democratic senator said Monday. Republicans said that the provision, which leaders said would be removed from

Article: Bush Asked to Drop Disputed Appointee
AP Online;  January 4, 2002 ;     594 words ...00-00-0000 Dateline: WASHINGTON Days before a federal judge is to take up the matter, the head of the Civil Rights Commission asked President Bush on Friday to drop his attempt to place a disputed appointee on the panel. Chairwoman Mary Frances Berry wrote a letter appealing to the president to

Article: Senate Faith Initiative Backer To Drop Disputed ...
The Washington Post;  August 2, 2001 ;     618 words ...The Senate sponsor of President Bush's effort to expand government funding of religious charities said yesterday that he would drop the legislation's most controversial provisions, boosting the proposal's prospects of becoming law. Rick Santorum (R-Pa the legislation's main proponent in the Senate,

Article: Congress Approves D.C. Bill; Negotiators Drop ...
The Washington Post;  October 27, 1990 ;     700+ words ...Congress gave final approval early this morning to the District's $3.9 billion appropriations bill after House and Senate conferees agreed that the city could not use its own money for abortions for poor women and dropped tougher mandatory minimum sentencing for drug traffickers. By maintaining

Article: Following Baby's Death, Orthodox Group Urges Followers To ...
Forward;  March 4, 2005 ;     675 words ...Greenberg, Eric J. Forward 03-04-2005 In response to the death of a New York baby boy from herpes, the top union of Modern Orthodox rabbis is urging Jews to abandon the ancient ritual practice of suctioning the blood by mouth directly from the baby's penis during circumcision. The Rabbinical

Article: FTC to Settle Cases Against Liquid-Diet Firms; Three Companies ...
The Washington Post;  March 26, 1993 ;     645 words ...The federal government will disclose today that it has settled complaints against three companies it accused of falsely advertising the safety and effectiveness of their liquid-diet programs. The Federal Trade Commission's settlement with the companies follows a similar round of actions last summer