It was then, state and Federal officials say, that Governor Sununu began calling them to head off a full environmental study.
He said the offer was made at a lunch on 13 June 1998 which included Malcolm Colless, a veteran News Ltd executive, and David Russell, who was then state president of the National party.
Sloat's business partner, Kelly Jensen, worked in the 1990s as chief of staff for Charles Calderon, who was then state Senate majority leader.
Dragon Dictate's performance with what was then state-of-the-art computers was, Dr. Raskind recalls, not brilliant in technical terms.
At the time, Mr. Trichet was a director of the French Treasury and a board member of Crédit Lyonnais, which was then state-owned.
Air France-KLM joined with a consortium of leading Italian companies, including the tire maker Pirelli and the oil company Eni to rescue Alitalia, which was then state-owned, from bankruptcy in 2008.
Using what was then state-of-art equipment - portable at a mere 200-300lb - they recorded the sounds of native Mexican peoples, such as the Cora, Huichol, Seri, Tzotozil and Yaqui, who had always lived cut off from mainstream society.
Throughout the case, prosecutors argued that Mr. Dumas, now 78, had arranged for his mistress to get a job at an oil company, Elf Aquitaine, which was then state-owned, and then benefited from the nearly $9 million that the company showered on her between 1989 and 1993.
Three weeks after being convicted on corruption charges, Roland Dumas, a former foreign minister, has lashed out at two ministers in France's governing Socialist Party, saying that both were well aware of the illicit use of funds at the Elf Aquitaine oil company, which was then state-owned.
The court in Orléans said Seita, now merged with Tabacalera of Spain in a new company called Altadis, could not be held even partly responsible for the smoker's lack of information on the dangers of his smoking habit since the company was then state-owned.
Using what was then state-of-the-art evolutionary theory and hormone-testing technology, the authors analyzed testosterone levels in more than 4,000 military veterans, which they then compared with their previous marital history.
