Word: crop
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Though they are overwhelmingly white and male, the House freshmen--who include an obstetrician, a florist, an accountant, an insurance agent and a onetime member of Sonny and Cher--can claim to be something different from the usual crop of lawyers. They are the Jacobins in this revolution. After dropping out of college in 1980, Texas Representative Steve Stockman spent a summer homeless on the streets of Fort Worth. Eventually he found shelter with relatives and a job in a steel mill and made his way back to college. In his ear- ly 20s, Tennessee's Zach Wamp struggled back...
...Hillary Clinton's case, the problem has never been reducible to a mere matter of style. Our First Lady does not go around in a leather bustier or pick her teeth with a riding crop. If she has a problem -- and clearly she does -- it's that somehow, characterologically speaking, she doesn't add up. A vigorous advocate of the poor, she devoted much of the '80s, yuppie fashion, to dubious schemes for the accumulation of loot. A feminist, she's been faulted for doing little to advance women's careers in her husband's Administration. Motivated by the noblest...
...face, that seems fine. If we must have lobbyists, they might as well represent regular people, not just oil barons. The trouble is that regular people, like oil barons, are usually asking for money, whether in the form of crop subsidies for farmers, tax breaks for shopkeepers, Medicare or Social Security payments, or various other benefits. So the increasingly "democratic" face of interest groups means the American government is asked to pay more, which means finally Americans of all classes are too. And the ultimate cost could be larger still. The budget deficit is not only a grave problem...
...from the outset he demonstrated that he won't hesitate to discard once sacred rules of seniority if they keep him from appointing those who will more closely follow his vision and authority. With the term limits for chairmen the House approved last week, Gingrich ensures a whole crop of would-be successors all anxious to stay in his good graces for, the electorate willing, the next eight years...
Stars of the Forties are back with this year's crop of nominees for the 37th annual Grammy Awards. Among the nominees announced today: Tony Bennett, 68-year-old crooner and a Generation X darling of late, received a nomination today for album of the year for his "MTV Unplugged." (He'll go up against "The 3 Tenors in Concert 1994," Eric Clapton's "From the Cradle," Bonnie Raitt's "Longing in Their Hearts," and Seal's self-titled album "Seal.") Frank Sinatra, whose first albumful of digitized duets with rock stars such as U2's Bono was released...