Word: columnist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...main opposition in the party is Sen. Phil Gramm of Texas, a pain-before-gain deficit cutter with a mean streak so wide that he may easily alienate Republican primary and caucus voters in 1996. In other words, Kemp is now golden in the GOP. Columnist George F. Will even endorsed him for president this year over Bush...
...late August 1991, Clinton and Hillary decided to appear together the next month at one of the weekly breakfasts hosted by Christian Science Monitor columnist Godfrey Sperling, at which influential Washington reporters question prominent politicians. One reason: they thought the rumors of infidelity might come up, and this would afford them a chance to start defusing such stories. It happened as they foresaw; they readily affirmed that their marriage had been through some shaky times, but insisted it was now rock solid. Implicit message from Clinton: Even if I did commit adultery, so what? It's in the past...
...mogul and co-founder of the liberal group People for the American Way, is a fan, sort of. "Real passion is at such a premium these days," Lear says. "In the land of the sitting and reading dead, Limbaugh's got passion, and thus he's watchable." To columnist Alexander Cockburn (the Nation), Limbaugh's is "a funny act. Humor always helps. But he seems to me the last surviving idiocy of the Reagan-Bush years. It's like those stars that give off light long after they've died. Long after everything Reagan-Bush stood for has collapsed into...
...Guatemala as well as her father's Peasant Unity Committee but has neither backed nor denounced the rebels and their use of violence. Before the prize was announced, a military - spokesman argued that giving it to her "would be a political victory for the guerrillas." On the contrary, wrote columnist Alfonso Portillo in the daily Siglo 21, "she makes those who are guided by hate, racism, selfishness and stupidity tremble...
Gary Becker, 61, economics and sociology professor at the University of Chicago and Business Week columnist, pioneered the theory that people follow the same rational path whether making simple everyday decisions or complex business calculations. Honored for "extending the sphere of economic analysis to new areas of human behavior and relations," he has influenced demography and criminology with his research...