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Gingrich's victory was a rebuke to the House's Old Guard Republicans, a breed typified by the congenial minority leader, Bob Michel of Illinois. The chunky, blow-dried Gingrich represents the party's Young Turks, ultra- conservative Republicans, many of them elected in the '80s, who are fed up with their elders' deference to the majority. The Old Guard, Gingrich said, "tends to say, 'Oh, gee, ((the Democrats)) are in charge. How can we be nice enough to them that they'll let us pretend we're part of the game?' " In contrast, he declared, "I represent the wing...
...benefit of reduced pesticide use would be less chemical contamination of fish. The waters where fish breed are being polluted by pesticide runoff from the land along with sewage and industrial wastes that are dumped into streams and rivers. Oyster and clam beds that lie close offshore have been especially vulnerable...
Schramm, who says Reed is unassuming about his unusual educational background, concludes, "They must breed them well up in the goat farm...
Aaron's tale reflects a real-life strategic shift in which military competition is giving way to financial struggle. "The new focus of Soviet intelligence operations under Mikhail Gorbachev," warns one of his characters, "is in the field of economics." Aaron has populated his tale with a new breed of intelligentsia whose members whisper in the same breath about both espionage and arbitrage...
...divestment overseers looked like a dying breed...