Helm's urging, the full transcript of this hearing is to be printed and make available before the Senate is asked to give its advice and consent to the Chemical Weapons Convention.

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Michel Camdessus's final days at the IMF's helm are most vividly remembered for a face-full of anti-globalization cream pie he got at the UNCTAD meeting in Bangkok last month.

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Murdoch finally succumbed to the turmoil that for a time threatened to engulf the entire company, even after it stepped away from a controversial bid to acquire full control of its UK-based broadcasting arm, ending any possibility of him succeeding his father at the helm of one of the most powerful media empires in the world.

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