Word: craige
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Lott's triumph consolidates a rightward and Southerly turn among the Senate leadership, which includes majority whip Don Nickles of Oklahoma, Cochran as chairman of the G.O.P. conference committee, Florida's Connie Mack as its secretary and Idaho's Larry Craig, Public Enemy No. 1 for gun-control supporters and environmentalists, as chairman of the G.O.P. policy committee. Phil Gramm of Texas happily predicts "a more aggressive Senate...
Every political event has a Craig Livingstone standing somewhere near the stage. He's the overweight advance man who's trying to look like a Secret Service agent--the one conspiring into his cell phone and swaggering through the crowd with beepers and walkie-talkies bristling from his belt. Every campaign needs people like Livingstone; they book the hotels, hire the copy shops, polish off the buffet-table spreads and try to make others at the hotel bar think they were in the room for the big strategy session. If the candidate wins, some land staff jobs with impressive-sounding...
...Operation. It is also possible, according to some of the two dozen people interviewed by TIME who know Livingstone, that the security director's love of intrigue and need for acceptance may have led him into waters too deep for his skills. (Fellow advance men used to call him Craig Flintstone.) A former restaurant bouncer from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Livingstone apparently inflated his work history. He said he was the public-relations man for an Atlantic City casino, but that job requires a license, which, according to the Casino Control Commission, he never obtained. Working as a gofer and advance...
Kerrey recruited his candidates like a zealous corporate headhunter eager for his 10% commission. In Idaho he tried to persuade Minnick, a former CEO of the construction-products firm TJ International, to challenge first-term Republican Larry Craig. For several months, he called every week, and each time Minnick said no, he was too old, didn't like Washington and couldn't win anyway. Kerrey authorized a $25,000 poll and found out that while Minnick's popularity was just 11%, only one- third of Idaho voters recognized Craig's name, and many were more moderate than...
With one last ounce of energy, Adams managed a pass to a streaking Nielsen, who passed off to freshman Craig MacDonald. MacDonald then knocked in Harvard's first goal of the playoffs...