Word: capitols
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Defense Secretary-designate Les Aspin, 54, is a former whiz kid from Robert McNamara's Pentagon. He earned a reputation on Capitol Hill as a Pentagon gadfly but is now one of Washington's wisest military hands...
...Your agenda is my agenda," said Dan Rostenkowski when he greeted Bill Clinton on Capitol Hill last week. Coming from the powerful chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, who will be a key player in shepherding the new President's economic program through Congress next year, that seemed a reassuring pledge. But there may be a problem: TIME has learned that this mainstay of Clinton's legislative strategy could be severely shaken -- if not toppled -- by the results of a criminal investigation into the alleged misuse of Rostenkowski's $1.3 million campaign fund...
...TELL WINDOWS CATERING CO. OF WASHINGTON THAT Bill Clinton's election spells the end of politics as usual. Windows, a nonunion firm, last month submitted the apparent winning bid to cater the Inaugural luncheon on Capitol Hill. But then, Windows says, a labor official accused the company of misrepresenting itself as a union firm. The JOINT CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE ON INAUGURAL CEREMONIES subsequently reopened the bidding and awarded the job to a union shop. John Chambers, executive director of the joint committee, denied that Windows had ever officially won the deal...
...Every sovereign nation has the right to determine its capital," said Amalia D. Kessler '95, a HIPAC member who helped with the letter circulation. "If the U.S. accepts Israel's basic right to exist, then it must recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capitol by moving its embassy there from Tel-Aviv...
...Packwood had suddenly become an unperson -- the Senator from Not. During freshman orientation time in Washington last week, 11 newly < elected Senators and 110 fledgling members of the House fumbled their way around Capitol Hill. But as they consulted with senior lawmakers about the bewilderingly complex rules of their august institutions, the office of Oregon's normally gregarious five-term Republican Senator was eerily silent, except for an occasional reporter's unwelcome call...