Word: cabineteer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...were already indicted last week on charges of taking or giving millions of dollars in bribes to arrange government loans to Hanbo Steel Industry Co., and after the president's speech, all twelve of his senior secretaries offered to resign. Resignations also were expected to be offered by his Cabinet and key leaders of the ruling New Korea Party. But Kim's shakeup is unlikely to end the scandal. Opposition leaders, unimpressed, are holding out for an independent prosecutor to reinvestigate, a request they say Kim has repeatedly denied...
Leslie Gabor's mother trusted a personal code too. She started sending money to Swiss banks from Bercel, Hungary, in 1940, noting the account numbers and bank names on the bottom of a dining-room chest and underneath a kitchen cabinet. Transferring funds three times a year, she had amassed about $100,000 by 1943. In 1944 Gabor's mother, brother and sister were transported to Auschwitz. Gabor and his father escaped, but when they reached the family house, everything was gone. "All the furniture had been removed by the Germans. We no longer had the names and numbers...
...roots--she's a bricklayer's daughter--Jackson concentrates on transportation issues. Last week she led her party's attack in opposing privatization of the London Tube. When elections are held this spring, Labour is favored to win. Jackson is reported to be in the running as a possible Cabinet member, but regally dismisses the notion, saying, "My only political ambition is to be re-elected...
...teachers Raines impressed at Harvard was the future Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, who hired Raines as a summer intern when Moynihan was appointed to the new post of urban-affairs adviser by Richard Nixon. At 20, Raines found himself briefing the President and most of his Cabinet on campus unrest two weeks before a nationwide antiwar moratorium. Raines' own experiences as a protester five months earlier may have provided his first taste of how inhospitable the "vital center" can be. He led a demonstration against both the militant students who occupied a university building and the administration' that decided...
...produced a fair share of acrimony. For starters Clinton has for the first time committed himself to balance, with numbers credible enough to stand up to scrutiny on Capitol Hill but big enough to accommodate the promises he made during the last campaign. Meanwhile, a cohort of departing Cabinet secretaries, whose relationships with Clinton were more deeply rooted than the new OMB director's, seized their final chance to make demands. Housing Secretary Henry Cisneros, for example, facing $1 billion in new low-income-housing cuts, lamented in a memo to Raines that found its way to the Wall Street...