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Armey's flair for pit-bull partisanship has catapulted him from obscurity to the upper ranks of the new Republican regime on Capitol Hill. Nine years ago, as a freshman Congressman, he was dismissed by the Almanac of American Politics as "hardly likely to be a power in the House." Now he stands ready to assume his job in the next Congress as majority leader and right-hand man to Newt Gingrich, the future Speaker of the House. That might not be the sort of influence one would expect from a man whose pickup truck sports a bumper sticker that...
...nothing to distract him but the cold sea breeze. He searches each pocket twice, the first time slowly and then frantically: only a pocket knife, his lighter and a hairbrush. Then he sits, arms wrapped around his knees, head turned away, his small frame shaking slightly. "This is bull ," he says in a whisper. He says it again, then again, each time softer until he is inaudible...
...longer buying stocks or bonds and had put all her money in CDs. That was enough to secure Garzarelli a reputation for having all but predicted the 508-point market drop. Her stature increased in 1990 when she urged clients to buy stocks shortly before the new bull market started...
...rewarded. Frazier picks up momentum when he hits the 19th century. By that time his forebears were living in Ohio. Several of them joined the 55th Ohio Volunteer Infantry to fight Confederates in the Civil War. They saw action in two notable Union defeats, the battles of Second Bull Run and Chancellorsville, and survived. Some of the best passages in Family occur when Frazier follows, in a rented car, the marches undertaken by the 55th and tries to take himself back in time. Usually he succeeds, and when he fails he still shows his familiar flair for comic relief...
...sense that Mark Roosevelt was a little nervous at the beginning," said David F. Kennedy, of Hull, Mass. "But Roosevelt was the pit bull of the debate...