Word: capitols
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Roupas, the chairman of the College Republicans in Washington, D.C., started Election Day at 6 a.m., driving from campus to the RNC building on Capitol Hill. A campaign event coordinator, he planned several budgets before racing back to GW for a presentation in his political communications class, followed by an afternoon finance midterm. At 5 p.m. he was back at the RNC for last-minute phonebanking...
...tone deaf in responding to the crisis. Not long after the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) asked doctors to vaccinate only those at highest risk of deadly complications--people over 65, pregnant women, young children and patients with chronic medical conditions--the office of Dr. John Eisold, the Capitol's attending physician, was still freely dispensing vaccine. Some House and Senate members defended the practice on the grounds they meet a lot of elderly and sick people and shake a lot of hands--despite the fact that both President Bush and Senator Kerry had announced that they, as healthy, civic...
...Pentagon that morning, President Bush, who had been reading to schoolchildren in Sarasota, Fla., phoned Vice President Dick Cheney from his cabin in Air Force One. "We're at war," he said. As the President's plane was taking off over Florida, Kerry strode down the steps of the Capitol in Washington, having received orders to evacuate. In an interview with the New York Times, Kerry recalled scanning the skies for incoming aircraft as he left the building. He turned to someone near him. "This is war," Kerry remembers saying. "This...
...Although time is running out, South Asian nations may yet get a boost if the U.S. textile industry persuades Washington to restrict clothing imports from China for a few more years. Representatives of several Asian governments are doing their own lobbying in the U.S. capitol, hoping to gain protection for at least three more years. Without special treatment, garment industries in countries such as Nepal are likely to become a free-trade casualty, says exporter Pokhrel: "Death is the only prediction we can make...
When Senator Mark Dayton shut down his Washington office last week, ostensibly out of concern for his staff's safety, many on Capitol Hill wondered if the Minnesota Democrat knew something everyone else didn't. The answer, it turns out, is far from it. Dayton last month received the same briefing as his fellow Senators about a CIA worst-case scenario involving simultaneous terrorist attacks across the country. Yet he apparently took the hypothetical threat as an imminent one. "Most people who heard the briefing," sniffs an intelligence official, "understood the context. It was theoretical...