Word: businessman
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QUOTE OF NOTE: "I enter this race not as a politician, but as an engineer and small-businessman who understands that the key to our nation's economic prosperity lies within the promise of individual initiative and small-business growth...
...verbal melee that enveloped the 1994 contest between Lally and Gary Ackerman has, if anything, intensified this year. Calling his opponent a "corrupt, radical liberal," Lally emphasizes his own outsider status as a businessman (he once owned a company that made celebrity statuary). Although many of his proposals--like reducing taxes and pruning back the government--mirror the Contract with America, he has distanced himself from the G.O.P.'s more conservative fringe...
BORN: May 20, 1945, Sutter County EDUCATION: American River College, A.A., 1967; California State U, 1968-69 FAMILY: Wife, Pamela Sargent; eight children RELIGION: Mormon MILITARY: None OCCUPATION: Rancher; small-businessman POLITICAL CAREER: California Assembly, 1981-86; U.S. House, 1986- ADDRESS: P.O. Box 1500, Chico...
BORN: Dec. 3, 1924, Beach City, Ohio EDUCATION: Mount Union College, B.A., 1948; William McKinley School of Law, LL.B., 1952 FAMILY: Wife, Mary; three children RELIGION: Episcopalian MILITARY: Navy, 1944-46 OCCUPATION: Lawyer; businessman POLITICAL CAREER: Ohio Board of Education, 1960-64; Ohio House, 1965-66; Ohio Senate, 1967-72; U.S. House, 1972- ADDRESS: 733 42nd Street, N.W., Canton, Ohio...
Witt, a conservative Washington County businessman, says increased name recognition, better financing and high-level G.O.P. support will tip the balance in his favor this year. He supports a three-term limit for House members and a mandatory 60% congressional majority to raise taxes...