Word: coelho
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...after meeting last fall with Smith Professor of Language and Literature Joaquim-Francisco Coelho, the Romance Languages Department's undergraduate advisor in Portuguese, Durham took a special exam and placed out of the language requirement...
...There's no reason to panic." Former House Majority Whip Tony Coelho (D-California) commenting on the Republicans' new majority in Congress...
Voters had sent Foley a message in the primary. But in interviews he insisted that there was nothing unusual about this political year, that voter anger was exaggerated in news reports. Party officials were so dismayed that Tony Coelho, the de facto head of the Democratic National Committee, publicly chastised Foley by calling for him to begin running an "aggressive professional campaign." Translation: go negative against your opponent, and play up the pork...
Power engenders fear. The Representative from Cobb County is more than a legislative bomb thrower. In the past 16 years, his guerrilla techniques have toppled one House Speaker -- Jim Wright of Texas -- and prompted the resignation of a senior Democrat -- Tony Coelho, now a part-time adviser to the Clinton White House. This year Gingrich ambushed the crime bill and forced an embarrassed Clinton Administration into overdrive to save it. Says Mickey Edwards, a former eight-term Oklahoma Republican and now a full-time lecturer at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government: "He's made the Democratic leadership deal with...
...must ask people whether they're better off than they were two years ago," says Tony Coelho, the new senior adviser to the Democratic National Committee. "The answer clearly is yes." Even if that works, Coelho reckons, Democrats will lose between 18 and 22 House seats and three in the Senate. Given the risks of association with Washington, Democrats are also moving to emphasize their stands on purely local issues. Describing the House campaigns, Genie Norris, executive director of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, says that "we approach this as if they're 435 mayoral elections...