Word: coloradan
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...entering in October and garnering 19% of the vote. Volume II begins as our protagonist, after spending months of coy obfuscation and many millions creating his perhaps inaptly named Reform Party, declares his intentions forthrightly to his amiable megaphone, Mr. Larry King, but not before luring one hapless Coloradan by the name of Richard Lamm into the race so as to assure voters that Mr. Perot himself was not averse to competition...
...champion. "She decided to go faster and faster," her mother recalled last week. So fast that Van Dyken, now a 6-ft. 150-lb. sprinter, rocketed her way to four gold medals, an unprecedented haul for any American woman swimmer in a single Olympics. The 23-year-old Coloradan, daughter of a software-company president, anchored two relay victories, in the 4x100-m freestyle and the 4x100-m medley, and captured two individual golds, in the 100-m butterfly and the 50-m freestyle--a win that crowns her "the world's fastest woman" in water. She also charmed...
...stretching to say that there is a little bit of Ross Perot in Dick Lamm: arrogance, elitism, a close personal identification with Paul Revere. The Coloradan can be "aloof and unforgiving," concedes brother Tom, a lawyer in Boulder, Colorado. "He is driven by ideas, not what others think of him." For at least this brief moment, Lamm has claimed the spotlight. But he will soon be competing not just with Perot but also with the Olympics and then the major-party conventions for airtime and oxygen. And when voters do take a look, just about everyone will find something...