In 1991, with a solid bid package in place for the 1998 Games, Salt Lake City officials received a letter from Patrick Hickey, the president of Ireland's Olympic committee, who let drop that some IOC members had contracted to sell their votes for a flat fee of $ 100, 000 to the city of Nagano, Japan.
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FRAXA's enthusiasm for Bear's theory began, Clapp said, when Bear stopped by the foundation's booth at a major neuroscience conference in 2000 and let drop that he had the mechanism of Fragile X " figured out, " and it was " really neat because compounds exist that can treat it . " Then he walked away-- only to be chased down by Tranfaglia for more details.
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However, Frank Podmore wrote that Hyslop's s�ance sittings with Piper " do not obviously call for any supernormal explanation " and " I cannot point to a single instance in which a precise and unambiguous piece of information has been furnished of a kind which could not have proceeded from the medium's own mind, working upon the materials provided and the hints let drop by the sitter ."
