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The activation of transmission on the master handset required, however, that a second button be pressed.
One button on the repeater system activation console in the North Tower was pressed at 8:54, though it is unclear by whom.
The findings are no surprise: Americans are moderate and centrist "from virtually every angle" ( LAT ). The poll largely replicates the results of Wednesday's NYT /CBS News poll (see Wednesday's "TP"): The Congressional GOP is extraordinarily unpopular, despite George W. Bush's popularity; Gore will be hard pressed to beat Bush, despite Clinton's high approval rating; people are happier with their finances and more tolerant of government intervention than five years ago.
On July 10, he pressed the president for jobs for three more friends, invoking his impeachment vote, just in case Johnson had forgotten.
The Celts, pressed to the sea by the Romans, survived in lands either too rough for effective military operations or too incompatible to agriculture, but not too inhospitable for the Erica plant family.