Word: coelho
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...Helping organize the pushback against the drive for data has been former House whip and legendary Democratic operator Tony Coelho, an epileptic who helped write the Americans with Disabilities Act and now leads the Partnership to Improve Patient Care. The partnership is an odd coalition of the drug companies, devicemakers and medical specialists who stand to lose the most from evidence-based medicine, joined by a variety of patient groups (some of whom also receive industry funding) concerned about access to care. Coelho says he welcomes effectiveness research if it can help doctors and patients make more informed decisions...
...BEHIND IT Two former Democratic National Committee chairmen, Joe Andrew and Don Fowler, lead a group of party operatives, including former Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee chairman Tony Coelho, who also chaired Al Gore's 2000 presidential campaign...
What do you do to relax? Every night before I go to sleep, I read a novel for at least an hour. This is how I try to forget the aggressive work of the day. Right now I am reading The Zahir by Paulo Coelho. I like the way Coelho looks at world issues...
...people here, and there are so many different machineries working for the other talents. It's a combination of luck and preparation in order for all this to happen. You know how many brilliant performances there were this year? But it's almost like what they say in [Paulo Coelho's] The Alchemist, "When you seek out your own personal legend, the universe conspires...
...congressional rules that landed Washington power brokers in trouble as much as smaller lapses in judgment: House Speaker Jim Wright over how his book was being sold, Ways and Means chairman Dan Rostenkowski over his exchange of stamps for cash at the House post office, Democratic whip Tony Coelho over a questionable junk-bond investment, and eight lawmakers who lost their seats in 1992 in part over checks they bounced at the House bank...