Hot Weld, ridden by 5lb claimer PJ McDonald, did it the hard way as he made all the running over an extended four miles at Ayr.

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The trend was set by centrist William Weld after he succeeded Michael Dukakis in 1990 and extended by Paul Cellucci.

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Lugar said that Weld should be considered by the Senate committee.

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Mr Weld planned to follow his Boston press conference by sniping at Mr Helms from the airwaves and from the op-ed page of the New York Times.

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No matter that the deal would weld the country's fourth and fifth biggest banks, by assets, into its biggest retail-banking outfit: ministers argued correctly that saving the financial system was more important than fussing about competition.

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Also with Robert Duvall, Rachel Ticotin, Barbara Hershey, Frederic Forrest, and Tuesday Weld (floundering in a cruelly conceived role.) The ugly cinematography is by Andrzej Bartkowiak.

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