Word: capitols
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Melconian, whom some regard as a front-runner, is advertising her "insider" slant in a field of relative newcomers. "She can go in and be effective on day one," says campaign manager John Dellvolpe. Melconian is banking on her nine and one-half years on Capitol Hill as a legislative assistant for former U.S. House Speaker Thomas P. O'Neill Jr. and her 9-year stint as state senator...
...popularity of their fearsome weapons into a new splurge of arms spending and big profits. Such is the congressional passion for these high-tech marvels that a new "war dividend" of great value to many people -- but decidedly not to the beleaguered American taxpayer -- is being doled out on Capitol Hill...
...binge of defense spending: most of them voted against giving George Bush a green light to start the war. Now they may be even more anxious than the Republicans to push new weapons. Contends Lawrence Korb, an Under Secretary of Defense in the Reagan Administration: "The Democrats on Capitol Hill are in shell shock. To stand up against the Patriot now would be unpatriotic...
...Civil War ended 126 years ago, but the Stars and Bars can still stir racial tension in the old Confederacy. Three years ago, 14 black state legislators in Alabama were arrested for attempting to remove the Confederate flag, symbol of a slaveholders' rebellion, at the state capitol. In 1983 black students at the University of Mississippi succeeded in forcing the school to abandon the flag as its emblem...
Collins is what is known in the business as a "hired gun": his firm contracts its services to various institutions and businesses, pleading their causes on Capitol Hill. Currently he lobbies for Boston University, Tufts University and the New England College of Optometry...