Word: casey
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...News columnist John M. Baer, one of the state?s veteran political observers, noted Friday, Pennsylvania actually has a rich tradition of politicians and their handlers putting their foot in their mouths during a crucial moment of a political campaign. In 1990 gubernatorial challenger Barbara Hafer called incumbent Bob Casey ?A redneck Irishman,? propelling him to a second term, and Dick Thornburgh?s aide once called his boss ?The salvation of this sorry-ass state,? pretty much assuring that Harris Wofford would become the state's next U.S. senator in 1991. So it seems that, thanks to Seif's gaffe...
...Both are well-suited for the sometimes ruthless work of running their party's campaign committees. Looking to knock off Pennsylvania Republican Senator Rick Santorum, Schumer recruited Bob Casey, the popular, anti-abortion rights secretary of state there, and pressured an abortion rights advocate running for the seat to withdraw-angering abortion rights activists who are key donors to the party. ?The days are over when a Democratic candidate has to check off 18 politically correct boxes,? Schumer says. In a congressional race in Illinois, Emanuel recruited Tammy Duckworth, a Army major who lost both her legs in Iraq, pushing...
...officer in Iraq said Thursday that his forces, while strained, are not broken. "The forces are stretched," Army General George Casey said. "I don't think there's any question of that. But the Army has been for the last several years going through a modernization strategy that will produce more units and more ready units." Still, his boss, Pentagon chief Donald Rumsfeld, flat-out declared Wednesday that Krepinevich's study "is just not consistent with the facts." But as the defense secretary spoke to reporters at the Pentagon, Democrats led by former defense secretary William Perry released a report...
...higher-ups have worked—though not hard enough—to keep the long arm of Big Brotherly law from reaching into our Houses, classrooms, and libraries.To their credit, people like Director of the University Library Sidney Verba and Director of Federal and State Relations Kevin Casey have spoken out this semester against the provisions of the PATRIOT Act that let the feds obtain library and other student records on demand.But Mass. Hall has been mum on other intrusive programs like the Student and Exchange Visitor Information System (SEVIS), which keeps close tabs on international students...
...This new regulation...would require an exceptional amount of investigation from the university’s perspective into whose interaction with what equipment would require a license,” Casey said. “In order to drill to that level, it would be an incredibly expansive regulatory exercise to go through...