Word: barrette
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...didn't win, and Weld's political resume still makes him a poor fit for anything resembling national office: He's too much a social liberal for a GOP ticket, and too prominently Republican to cross the aisle. Barrett sees Weld "striking out into some genteel private-sector post ? like a university presidency." Weld is still young, and he's got his wealth. Having started his fire in Helms's living room, Weld seems content to head back home...
WASHINGTON: Pay attention, America: This may be the last you see of William Weld for a while. The former Massachusetts governor announced Monday he has conceded to Jesse Helms in the battle for Mexico. TIME Washington contributor Laurence Barrett believes Weld's attack on Beltway culture had gone as far as it could. "Weld looked a little bored in the governor's chair, and the idea of an ambassadorship must have intrigued him. And once he saw Helms in his way, Weld figured that a fight, whether he won or lost, would raise his national profile...
...Randy Tate look to re-energize a group that has hit a wall in its drive to expand its influence over American politics. "Movements of this kind rise or fall on whether the leadership can continue to have active folks down at the worker bee level," TIME's Laurence Barrett says. And, he adds, in the last eight months other factions in the religious right, such as the Family Research Council, have begun to steal the spotlight from the coalition...
...hell breaks loose. In rapid order I hear from Mendiero Barrett, Dysson's V.P. of Pan-Pacific Integration ("Dysson is currently conducting a private inquiry into the suicide of Denny Reikert...") and from a recruiter who offers me, of all things, a job at Dysson and guides me to its Website www.dysson.com) which is written in creepy corporate prose and looks just as one would expect a "global telecommuting consortium" to look, complete with geeky employee photos and a client list that includes Time Warner, the parent company of this magazine. I hear from an anonymous employee...
...country listening to what was really on people's minds. Thus was born our "Backbone of America" project. We decided to take old U.S. Highway 50, which runs right through the center of the country. With a revolving cast of writers, editors and photographers (coordinated by special-projects editor Barrett Seaman), we visited factories and shops, ate at local cafes and in people's homes, joined in town meetings, played in pool halls and on gambling boats, and stopped our Greyhound at whatever struck our fancy...