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The House and Senate passed legislation to build a national missile defense system . The White House persuaded the Senate, but not the House, to insert a clause saying the system won't be deployed until it's "technologically possible," which could allow President Clinton and his successors to postpone it.
Not so with Webster , for, owing to a bit of folly in the 1930s, G. & C. Merriam Company, of Springfield, Massachusetts, successors to the line of dictionaries originated by Noah Webster, published a synonym dictionary and called it a Webster . World Publishing Company, of Cleveland, had the wit to see that Merriam had, in effect, forsworn its birthright, for Noah had never published a synonym dictionary.
3. "Best thing a CEO has said in a long time: Time Warner's Gerald Levin to Daily Variety about possible successors to Bob Daly and Terry Semel, 'All current candidates are speculation and unless you talk to me it's all bullshit .' Of course, you wonder if the reporter then said, 'But I am talking to you.
But Ala-ud-din’s successors did not assert control of the territory.
We were told that these measures languished under Gates's successors.