Word: antagonists
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When Al Gore '69 and Ross Perot debated the North American Free Trade Agreement last fall for a national viewing audience, the personal tensions between the vice-president and his antagonist were evident but subtle...
When BOBBY RAY INMAN withdrew himself from consideration for Secretary of Defense, he cited columnist William Safire and Senator Bob Dole, among others, as the causes of his vexation. But there was one antagonist he didn't mention: Senator TRENT LOTT. A source familiar with Inman's thinking says Lott was one of the chief reasons why Inman pulled out; he believed the Mississippi Republican was marshaling forces on the Senate Armed Services Committee against him. Lott, however, says he was for Inman all along...
...function is also to set the stage for the savagery of Schindler's dark double and most dangerous antagonist, Amon Goeth, commandant of the nearby labor camp, played by Ralph Fiennes in the film's most compelling performance. A man of Schindler's own age and background, he likes to sit on the balcony of his house idly shooting prisoners who happen to wander into his gunsight. He keeps as a servant a Jewish woman named Helen Hirsch (Embeth Davidtz), whom he constantly beats and humiliates precisely because against all dictates of ideology, he loves her. The point about this...
...citing a "pattern and practice of disobeying orders," ruled that Frank Lorenzo's proposed new airline, ATX, should not be allowed to fly. The airline industry's unions, who blame Lorenzo for the downfall of Eastern Airlines, led the fight against the start-up to keep their bitterest corporate antagonist out of the business...
Clinton temporarily quelled the crisis by reaching an agreement with his principal antagonist on the issue, Georgia Senator Sam Nunn, to halt the practice of asking military recruits about their sexual orientation, while postponing an official lifting of the ban until July 15. With Nunn's support, Clinton had enough swing votes in the Senate to block a Republican attempt -- expected this week -- to write the existing ban into law. And he earned six months to concentrate on more pressing matters while aides worked out the details of a permanent repeal. "I am looking forward to getting on with this...