Word: 12th
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Georgia and Colorado on March 5 to Texas and Florida on March 12, the percentage of delegates awarded on a proportional basis shrinks. No wonder Dole strategist Don Sipple wants Alexander gone by then. "If we can have a two-person race by the time we get to the 12th,'' he says, "the whole thing takes on a different disposition when we get to the Midwest...
...here 18 years, and it's probably six or eight years longer than I intended to stay initially," said the nine-term Pennsylvanian, chairman of the House Government Reform and Oversight Committee, Congress' primary investigative panel. The 66-year-old Clinger is the third House committee chairman and the 12th House Republican to announce plans to retire or seek higher office. Part of his decision, he said, was based on his beliefe that the GOP will win the White House this year: "I've said in the past that whichever party has the presidency, government reform and oversight should...
...evening, calling the plan "burdened with deep budget cuts and structural changes that fall short of real reform." But he quickly reiterated his longstanding commitment to welfare reform, pledging to work with congressional Republicans "to enact real, bipartisan welfare reform." Lacking the votes to override Clinton's veto, his 12th, the reaction from Republican congressional leaders was anything but sanguine. "He must now demonstrate what he is for," House Ways and Means chairman Bill Archer (R-Tex.) said. "No vague statement of principles. No unkept promises. I expect a complete bill, nothing less will do." The GOP reaction is mostly...
Oregon Republican Mark Hatfield, a moderate pillar of the Senate for 30 years, announced he will retire next year, the 11th Senator to do so. Reports circulated at week's end that Wyoming Republican Alan Simpson, one of the Senate's crustier members, may soon become the 12th. In the House, Colorado Democrat Pat Schroeder, the most senior woman in the chamber and one of its most influential feminists, said she would also step down, as did Kansas Republican Jan Meyers, the only woman to chair a full House committee. For his part, Speaker Newt Gingrich announced that he would...
...lively, charming, beautiful girl. She was so full of love." The prince visited several times, bringing stuffed animals or clothes; the little princess responded with thank-you notes and pictures. Michael's most handsome offer arrived in late 1993: he would pay Elisa's full tuition, through 12th grade, at the Brooklyn Friends School...