Word: bangor
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...bitter and bungling miscalculations of President Clinton's political foes made him look good. So good, in fact, one might ask, "With enemies like these, who needs friends?" JAMES KANTOR Bangor...
Susan Collins, the junior Senator from Maine, was sifting through a pile of Christmas cards at her home in Bangor one morning last week when the phone rang. "Hello, Susan!" said the smooth baritone voice on the other end of the line. It was Trent Lott, the Senate majority leader, calling from his home in Pascagoula, Miss., and wanting to talk about the biggest issue to confront the Senate in a generation: the impeachment trial of President Clinton. Hearing from Lott was a relief to Collins, a moderate Republican in a Democratic-leaning state where the President remains popular...
...networked. Handbags from Italy and designer shoes from Hong Kong are available to Web surfers throughout cyberspace; clerical work or software programming can be outsourced from anywhere to workers in Omaha or Bangalore; and the illness of a child in Bali can be diagnosed by a doctor in Bangor...
Collins is running primarily on her business credentials. After serving as an adviser to retiring Senator William Cohen, she ran a regional office of the SBA and was director of the Center for Family Business at Husson College in Bangor. She supports a cut in estate taxes and has fought to preserve funding for destroyers built at Bath Iron Works, Maine's largest employer. The G.O.P.would like to keep this Senate seat, but beating Joe Brennan is no piece of cake...
Growing up at Mama Baldacci's restaurant in Bangor, son John learned a thing or two about business and Italian cooking--and in politics he uses both. As a member of the Small Business Subcommittee, he drafted a bill to help businesses that want to export goods and services, and he has financed part of his campaign with $2-a-head spaghetti dinners. Baldacci has strong support with local moderates despite being the first Democrat in this seat in more than 20 years...