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Cut loose from the scripted charade of the campaign beat, Elena McMahon gets caught up in the machinations of one of those male dealers in dangerous merchandise, her father, Dick McMahon.
Apparently, not even the sure-fire plot machinations of Lillian Hellman and beguiling wiles of actress Stockard Channing can rescue this Lincoln Center production from its pretensions.
One Congress member is quoted as seeing in the Fed's Long-Term machinations an example of one set of rules for welfare mothers, another for rich people in Greenwich, Connecticut.
Time 's seven piece cover package includes an hour-by-hour account of Ken Starr's machinations to secure Monica's testimony, including a behind-the-scenes look at the meeting that sealed the deal.
Republican machinations against the IMF leadership and the Democratic Party.