Word: beltway
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Neither that record nor that rhetoric would seem to make him the natural standard bearer for the G.O.P. warriors who rode into Washington last fall promising to wipe out the very practices that Dole has spent the past 34 years mastering inside the Beltway. "There are so many now who grew up fighting a bully government," says Georgia Senator Paul Coverdell, who, though 56, is part of the newer generation in Congress because he was elected in 1992. "We had to overcome it." By contrast, Coverdell notes, Dole came of age when "government was seen more as a facilitator...
Burke's enemies, however, see her as Dole's bad angel, the woman who urges on his predisposition to compromise. Not for Dole is Margaret Thatcher's credo that consensus is the negation of leadership. And not for Burke. Beyond that, some are even casting her as a Beltway Lady Macbeth-the wily, power-hungry woman who works her (secretly liberal) will through a feckless politician...
...Bulls and Blackhawks incurred in constructing the facility," says Steve Schanwald, vice president of marketing for the Bulls. Jack Kent Cooke, owner of the N.F.L.'s Washington Redskins, is so enamored of luxury boxes--and the Washington lobbyists are so eager to buy them--that the joke around the Beltway is that the new Redskins stadium, which is planned for Landover, Maryland, will have 850 luxury boxes, with a handful of standing-room spaces left over for normal people...
Some inside the Beltway say it appears that Harvard, which booted the ROTC program off campus more than two decades ago, would be in violation of the language of the measure, jeopardizing the $12 million in research monies the University receives from the Defense Department each year...
...with the current mind-set of many Republicans in Washington, the University's efforts could be in vain and many say that Harvard will have to get used to its declining influence inside the Beltway...