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In a Slate "" last year, Crook claimed that we were contending that the value of a company is the present value of its stream of future earnings and that such a contention was false.
Everybody reports inside that Linda Tripp yesterday sued the White House and the Pentagon, contending that both violated her privacy by unlawfully disclosing information about her from her personnel file and other government records.
On one significant issue, the line-item veto, they held firm on an old stance even though doing so meant handing a Democratic president a knife to gore Republican oxen (though they did postpone the day as long as possible and are now contending that Clinton's conception of it is too broad).
Ankara's preferred attitude towards its 12 million Kurds is to deny they exist, in an ethnic sense, by contending they are really something called 'Mountain Turks.
Denby even goes against the conventional wisdom, contending that "the Gere-Roberts connection is still alive."