Word: courtships
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Back home Albright has made more than a dozen out-of-town trips to talk up foreign policy with Americans or to let influential Senators show her off with constituents. Her most ardent courtship has been of Senator Jesse Helms, the Foreign Relations Committee's curmudgeonly chairman whose home state of North Carolina Albright has visited twice. During her trip there last March, she spoke at Helms' alma mater and attended a birthday dinner for his wife. When Albright boarded the Air Force jet to return to Washington, she found on her seat a bag of barbecue...
...Evan Sicuranza). As the music plays and couples swirl around the dance floor, the man repeatedly steps on her toes, and she denies any pain and takes all the blame. Uebelacker's asides to the audience are funny, but eventually it becomes clear that she is stuck in a courtship ritual and simply unable to breach the laws of a too-polite so ciety...
...Gore's courtship of labor has already backfired on his boss. Last week G.O.P. Senators threw up new roadblocks to the nomination of Alexis Herman as Labor Secretary to punish the Administration for saying it would weigh the friendliness of companies toward unions in awarding federal contracts. It was Gore who made the case for this approach in a speech last Monday to the AFL-CIO's building and construction unions. There was little new in his announcement, but it was strident enough to bring a standing ovation from the unionists and a fit of pique from the Republicans...
Recalling a nightmare bus ride from North Carolina to Oregon, he captures the discreet charm of a particular single mother: "I got a good mind to call him Cecil Fucking Fuckwad, after his daddy." Later, outside of Portland, he hears of the tender courtship of a man of faith: "Oh, she wasn't my wife at the time, just another cute nurse with a great set of tits and an ass a man could get lost in. Jesus brought us together. Then he told us to get married and hightail it the fuck out of Alaska...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Cautious as he is with interest rates, Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan was even more careful when it came to popping the question to NBC's Andrea Mitchell. It took him 12 years of courtship, but the answer was a resounding "yes." The two will marry this Sunday at the upscale Inn at Little Washington in suburban Virginia, with a flock of Washington bigwigs in attendance. It will be the second marriage for both. Mitchell, 51, a hard-news Washington reporter who met Greenspan when he headed the Social Security bail-out commission, says that "rational exuberance...