Word: chandler
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...young man from a small, socialized country is being hailed up and down Santa Monica Boulevard by banners welcoming him to his new West Coast home. Call it Mr. Salonen Goes to Hollywood. Or maybe Esa-Pekka Does Disneyland. In four years the orchestra will move from the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in the Music Center to the $114 million, Frank Gehry-designed Walt Disney Concert Hall under construction nearby. Salonen's high-concept dream: "To conduct Bruckner in Walt Disney Hall -- a meeting of Bruckner and Donald Duck. Both were part of my tradition. Both are immortal." And both speak...
...MARYLAND Barbara Mikulski (D) inc. 71% Alan Keyes (R) 29% MISSOURI Geri Rothman-Serot (D) 46% Kit Bond (R) inc. 54% PENNSYLVANIA Lynn Yeakel (D) 49% Arlen Specter (R) inc. 51% SOUTH DAKOTA Charlene Haar (R) 33% Tom Daschle (D) inc. 65% WASHINGTON Patty Murray (D) 55% Rod Chandler (R) 45% Source: Associated Press...
...running for the Senate in the State of Washington, stands out as an original. The 41-year-old state legislator and community-college teacher likes to call herself "a mom in tennis shoes." Going toe-to-toe on the footwear symbolism, her Republican opponent, five-time Congressman Rod Chandler, has taken to wearing cowboy boots. But no amount of heavy stomping on the campaign trail has yet put him ahead of a woman whose campaign slogan could be "Mother knows best." "I tell people I am a mom caring for two kids and two aging parents with health problems...
Going after her proenvironment and health-care stands, Chandler has labeled Murray a tax-and-spend liberal Democrat. He also chides her for lacking the legislative experience and expertise to serve effectively in the Senate, but in a year marked by resentment against Washington insiders, inexperience can be a plus in the eyes of many voters. Maybe not enough of them, though -- while Murray once led in the polls by as much as 24 points, her lackluster debate performances and Chandler's attacks on her lack of political savvy have turned the race into a virtual dead heat...
According to Chandler, the Natural Law Party emphasizes non-partisan politics, seeking to use good ideas and programs regardless of the source...