Word: alberts
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...operations into models of efficiency. The staff of Illinois Democrat Paul Simon, for example, distributes the candidate's daily schedules to reporters not by messenger but by facsimile machine, which can transmit a typewritten page over telephone lines in 30 seconds or less. The personal assistants of Tennessee Democrat Albert Gore and Missouri Democrat Richard Gephardt are never far from their laptop computers, which they plug into telephone jacks at least once a day to exchange missives with far-flung operatives or to read the latest word from their Washington offices. When a blizzard last month prevented Robert Dole from...
Whether or not they bust the cap, most contenders in both parties will be nearly broke after New Hampshire. Only George Bush and Bob Dole among the Republicans and, to a lesser extent, Democrats Michael Dukakis and thrifty Albert Gore will have a comfortable cash cushion for the Super Tuesday primaries in the South. Even some of the early victors may be in trouble, since the rapacious demands of TV campaigns in the South could outstrip the abilities of their fund raisers. That is the underlying truth of presidential politics: it is extremely difficult to win without early money...
...Albert did not return a message left at his home in Weston yesterday...
...years he has gone from struggling craftsman to an artist whose crystal-encased wild flowers are in demand by collectors around the world and represented in museums from the Smithsonian Institution to London's Victoria and Albert. Dwight P. Lanmon, director of the Corning Museum of Glass, which also collects his work, sees in Stankard's flowers a spontaneity and freshness that "capture the quality of living plants...
Nunn's tentative endorsement. Georgia Senator Sam Nunn has decided to endorse fellow Southerner Albert Gore right after the Iowa caucuses -- unless Richard Gephardt wins that contest. In that event, Nunn will wait and watch for a while. Gephardt, who is from Missouri, has support among moderates in the South and could be Gore's greatest rival on Super Tuesday...