Word: alabamans
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Sessions' colleagues, for the most part, say he is a changed man. Senator Arlen Specter, whose defection to the Democratic Party opened the door for Sessions to move up, bent over backward on Tuesday to compliment the Alabaman, even though Specter was on the committee in 1986 and voted against Sessions at the time. "My vote against candidate Sessions for the federal court was a mistake," Specter told reporters on Capitol Hill, "because I have since found that Senator Sessions is egalitarian." Echoed Senator Chuck Grassley, an Iowa Republican and another long-term member of the committee, "The reason...
...HORSEPOWER An Alabaman protested high gas prices by taking his buggy for a spin. It was a short ride: horses are not allowed on interstate highways...
...optimal situation would be for FWSP to be expanded to accommodate international students attending U.S. colleges; however, why would a humble Alabaman taxpayer want to help pay for an Englishman’s education? It’s unlikely that this proposal would ever be accepted; this does not, however, mean that there’s nothing to be done. By tweaking its programs to create more equal opportunities for international students, Harvard can end this discrimination...
...seems to be little politics to the way Parsons is organizing the company this time, in contrast to the postmerger division of labor between him and Pittman. Logan and Bewkes bring relevant experience and talents to the assignments that lie ahead of them. Logan, 58, the burly and taciturn Alabaman who has rebuilt Time Inc. (parent of TIME) into a publishing dynamo, will oversee the subscription-based businesses, including AOL, Time Warner Cable and Time Inc. Bewkes, 50, who has led HBO to critical acclaim and rising profits, will add to his portfolio the Warner Bros. and New Line movie...
...Californian. "It means being fit and empowered, qualities that stereotypically pretty women do not necessarily embody." The majority of readers, however, were enthusiastic fans. "If Helen of Troy was blessed with such a face," wrote a Floridian, "then I sympathize completely with the behavior of Paris." Allowed an Alabaman: "She may be the healthiest person I've ever seen." Office workers in Indiana asked, "We're racking our brains--who is she? How can we call her?" Our cover girl is model Deirdre Seltzer, but her phone number we're keeping private...