Word: cabineteer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Their success has turned them into a kind of free-market Politburo on economic matters. Clinton relies on the men to a level that drives other Cabinet members nuts. One weekend this summer, when both Summers and Rubin were on vacation, Clinton began to panic about Russia's weakness. "Where's Bob?" the President kept asking nervously in a morning meeting. Turning to White House staff members, he told them to pull together a plan. The team spent a weekend crashing a strategy, only to be shut out again when Rubin arrived back in town. An aide to Secretary...
...that erred on the side of grown-up but was livelier for it. We all clapped to the beat as Joan Baez jigged and the Charles River Valley Boys covered the Beatles. The program became a kind of historiographic French smoke where the congregation pulled old records from the cabinet. Reassured by the immediacy of older artists like Baez and the Charles River Valley Boys, the audience proceeded to transform that sense of legacy into a sense of destiny as newer acts like the hard-boiled romantic Ellis Paul and bushy, lion-headed Pamela Means sang new songs, personal...
...concentrator had his camcorder stolen from an unlocked cabinet in the basement of Sever Hall...
...Albright, of course, mounted her own campaign for secretary of state from the U.N. post, and the presence at Cabinet level of a respected foreign-policy professional independent of her tutelage may make things a little uncomfortable for the incumbent. "Holbrooke is stepping up to the plate at a time when U.S. foreign policy is under growing criticism for lacking direction," says Dowell. And the U.N. ambassador-nominee isn't known for pulling his punches...
BRITAIN: Tony Blair's Welsh Secretary, Ron Davies, who is married, resigned his Cabinet post Nov. 4, after he was robbed by men he met at a London park known as a cruising ground for homosexuals...