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BORN: Dec. 23, 1942, Milledgeville, Ga. EDUCATION: Emory U, A.B., 1964, J.D., 1967 FAMILY: Husband, L. Buck; two children RELIGION: Episcopalian MILITARY: None OCCUPATION: Lawyer POLITICAL CAREER: Jacksonville city council, 1985-92; U.S. House 1992- ADDRESS: P.O. Box 380087, Jacksonville...
...chairman of Chicago's Housing Committee, Gutierrez once sold vacant lots to developers for a buck. But in Washington his flair has been muted by the Republican majority, which defeated such proposals as allowing abortions in veterans' hospitals and the funding of anticrime efforts by local housing authorities. The September withdrawal of Republican Tomas Mendoza has assured Gutierrez an easy victory...
...funds, Rieder is back, this time with more money. A Winona State University professor, Rieder wants to use her economics expertise to balance the budget. She won the endorsement of Hillary Clinton, who visited the district in September. Rieder has also renewed a 1994 campaign pledge she called "Buck the Debt," vowing to donate $1 from every campaign contribution to reduce the national debt...
Incumbent "Buck" McKeon took a conservative's distrust of government with him to Congress, but federal aid to his district after the 1994 earthquake softened that position. With a seat on the National Security Committee, McKeon is also an active proponent of more funding for the B-2 bomber, produced, not coincidentally, by companies in his district...
Andreas had to face down a shareholder revolt last week at the ADM annual meeting in Decatur. Declaring that "as Harry Truman said, 'The buck stops with me,'" the chairman apologized for the scandals. Nevertheless, the settlement put paid to an era at ADM, which Andreas and his family have dominated for 30 years. It appears unlikely that Michael Andreas will ever succeed his father. "Even if this is not the end of ADM," says a close business associate of Dwayne's, "this could well be the end of the Andreas reign...