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Le Monde of Paris devoted its front-page lead and its editorial Friday to the continuing tensions between the United States and Europe in the run-up to the World Trade Organization conference in Seattle at the end of November.
In the run-up to Jiang Zemin's visit, there is a lot of China action today.
Such humor or whimsy tends, in Johnson's work at any rate, to be of a fairly cynical turn--in keeping both with his general opinionatedness and with his specific feelings of demoralization while compiling the dictionary in the run-up to its publication in 1755.
The NYT reports that, as part of the run-up to Kyoto, the Clinton administration yesterday invited more than 100 national and local television weather forecasters to the White House for briefings on climate change in hopes of rallying public support for new measures restricting greenhouse gases.
In the run-up to the last presidential election, Clinton's campaign took in more than $200,000 in kiddie cash, outscoring his opponent almost 6-to-1 (Bob Dole, who raised similar amounts of hard money, raised some $35,000 from kids last year).