Word: companionism
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...almost disappear. Lindsey is everywhere and nowhere at the same time. "He's like oxygen," says Clinton strategist Paul Begala. "You can't see him, and you can't live without him." After years of his being at Clinton's side -- Lindsey was the presidential candidate's first traveling companion when the two trekked anonymously through airports, carrying their own bags -- there is practically nothing in print about him. He shuns interviews and does not do the morning shows, and it wasn't until the last six weeks of the campaign that he left his seat next to Clinton...
Cooper, the son of a rich landowner, was expelled from college, spent some years in the Navy, then discovered, in his early 30s, that he could write. Though he never lived in the wilderness, the Leatherstocking tales -- The Last of the Mohicans and four companion volumes -- cover 60 years of frontier life, from the French and Indian Wars to the settling of the Great Plains...
Petra Kelly co-founded Germany's Green Party in 1979 as an organization for the rights of environmentalists, feminists, pacifists and socialists. She also participated actively in the anti-nuclear coalition, and in 1983 she and her companion, Gert Bastian, were elected to Parliament as representatives of the Green Party...
Officer Richard Vitale and security guard Brian Lakin arrived to find Seager attempting to wake a female companion who had lost consciousness after apparently overdosing on heroin. Police officials said they do not believe Seager or his female companion are affiliated with the University...
...American trade zone is sufficient to spur economic growth. In the President's mind, free trade is an end in itself; once established, market forces will determine winners and losers on the merits. Clinton sees NAFTA's benefits as more elusive; to ensure that they are reaped, he favors companion legislation requiring a form of "industrial policy" that would create a partnership of government, business and labor to provide, among other things, a coordinated effort of worker retraining...