Word: chauffeur
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...result is a novel, colorful campaign on wheels. Coxson's liveried chauffeur sits up front and does the pedaling; the candidate lounges on the back seat, waving to his would-be constituents. Coxson, 42, who once owned a nightclub and an auto-leasing firm, jokes: "I don't like the way that IRS works. If they keep it up, I'm going to stop doing business with them." Moral: In the wheeling-dealing game of politics, there is more than one way to peddle a candidate...
...just going to have to get used to it, and in the meantime, Conrad Chisholm, 55, is setting them all a good example. As the husband of Presidential Candidate Shirley Chisholm, he has taken leave from his job as a private investigator in New York City to chauffeur the candidate around, research her speeches and "see that she's fed, clothed, eats on time and gets to her appointments. Shirley's the one out there making it, not me." Non-Chauvinist Conrad adds: "If you are a man-and a mature man-you do everything to maintain your...
...time I was eleven I was hiring the household staff. I'd tell them that the hours wouldn't be the same as in other households, but that they wouldn't be asked to do anything outrageous. I'd call the police to check the chauffeurs' references. I began answering Mama's fan mail when I was eleven too. She paid me $3 a week until I complained that the work was too much for me; then I got $5 a week. When I was 14, I drove my sister and brother to school and back because our chauffeur...
...still lives in a rundown military barrack, has vowed to return the government to civilian hands in 1976. In the meantime, his army -which accounts for an exorbitant 34% of the $1.1 billion federal budget -is enjoying the perquisites of power. Staff officers ride through the capital in chauffeur-driven Mercedes sedans, just as civilian politicians used to do. In the expensive suburbs of Lagos, there are scores of new homes and apartment buildings whose owners are officers and gentlemen. Many Nigerians believe that corruption is worse in Lagos today than it was in 1966, when the army seized power...
Jumping into his chauffeur-driven BMW, he set off for the airport, frequently hitting 110 m.p.h. on the straightaways. Over his car radio, Figueres dictated his detailed instructions for "terrorizing the terrorists," who were members of the Nicaraguan National Liberation Front. Two hundred armed civilian guardsmen should surround the plane. The runway should be blocked, the plane's tires deflated. Don Pepe repeatedly shouted into the radio, "Boys, this...