Word: carla
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...target audience for A House of Secrets (Birch Lane; 237 pages; $18.95). The novel has two things to recommend it: a plausible first-person tone of wounded innocence, and an author named Patti Davis -- better known as the daughter of Nancy D. Reagan. The narrator is one Carla Lawton, who grows up in California with few friends and one opponent: her mother. Rachel Lawton lies compulsively and attempts to control every aspect of her child's life. She makes toilet training a battleground, then becomes an increasingly jealous and violent competitor as Carla matures sexually. Democrats eager for political revelations...
Jack Kemp Housing and Urban Development. The quarterback turned Congressman turned Cabinet member behaves like a grumpy Supreme Court Justice, squawking about Bush's policy on China and Lithuania. Supply-sider Kemp wants to replace Trade Representative Carla Hills, but that's unlikely...
...list is also dotted with a handful of dark horse candidates from Washington D.C., including U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia and U.S. trade representative Carla A. Hills...
...just the latest in a series of Asian countries targeted by American cigarette companies and their agent, the office of the USTR. During the 1980s, the USTR's office successfully negotiated for the removal of cigarette import restrictions in Japan, South Korea and Taiwan. (The current U.S. Trade Representative, Carla Hills, has been mentioned as a candidate for the Harvard presidency...
...Bush Administration views the 30% cuts as "grossly inadequate" and U.S. Trade Representative Carla Hills warned last week that the Uruguay Round is "in jeopardy" because of the E.C.'s stubbornness on farm subsidies. To underscore her point, U.S. trade negotiators plan this week to propose reductions of as much as 70% in all worldwide domestic farm subsidies, plus even heavier cuts in export subsidies and greater market access for such agricultural imports as corn and wheat in the E.C., sugar and dairy products in the U.S. and rice in Japan. The so-called Cairns Group of 14 agricultural- exporting...