Word: crawfords
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...create a new safety board to monitor drugs for unexpected side effects that show up after the drugs have gone on sale. Meanwhile, the Bush Administration finally moved to fill a one-year power vacuum at the top of the organization by nominating its acting chief, Dr. Lester Crawford, to be the FDA's permanent head...
...Crawford wasted no time signaling a change in direction. "Our culture is not to alarm the public," he told employees at a department briefing, referring to the agency's practice of keeping mum about apparent side effects until they have been scientifically confirmed. "That era has passed. What the public is demanding is to know as soon as we know...
...most aid. After U.N. relief coordinator Egeland lambasted rich countries for skimping on their assistance to the region, the White House lashed back. "I felt like the person who made that statement was very misguided and ill-informed," said President George W. Bush, speaking from his home in Crawford, Texas, three days after the earthquake. Why the delay? Because, White House aides say, the President does not like to "showboat" by speaking too soon after events like this. "He didn't want to go out there and just speak for speaking's sake," says an aide. Democrats made...
...living room of Bush's ranch in Crawford, Texas, is a place for thinking. There are big windows with long views, a wall of books and on one side a table that is usually freckled with jigsaw pieces. It was a few days after New Year's in 2003. The President had been out clearing cedar, and Laura Bush was lying on a sofa reading, or at least pretending to. That Christmas holiday was a deep breath between the 2002 midterm elections and the walk-up to the war in Iraq. Karl Rove, chief strategist for the Bush re-election...
In one of the photo albums in her West Wing office, Condoleezza Rice keeps a picture of herself and President George W. Bush in a rowboat on a pond at the President's ranch in Crawford, Texas. Bush is standing at one end, peering over the edge at the bass in his stocked fishing hole. Rice is sitting at the other end, visibly uncomfortable. She may love talking sports with the President, but she's no fan of the water. "She can swim, but she doesn't like it," says a friend. "She and the outdoors are only on distant...