Word: dan
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...idea is hardly new. The origins of matchmaking go back to antiquity, springing from the custom, once common in Europe and the Orient, of arranged marriages. Even today in the U.S. the Old World custom persists: Manhattan marriage broker Dan Field says he is often consulted by parents who want him to arrange a match for their children. But what is becoming more common in the U.S. is the gold-card matchmaker for the affluent among those 43 million unmarried Americans between 18 and 44. "Across America," says San Francisco matchmaker Barbara Tackett, "there are people making...
...independence. While some members of the transition team seemed thrilled to see the President-elect make a bold decision, others recalled that Bush was not always at his best on his own. Said a skeptical adviser: "There was a lot about this week that was reminiscent of the Dan Quayle episode...
Factually speaking, I wasn't really in the Eliot House dining hall, but with Dan Quayle unable to wipe a smirk off his burnt flash-bulb of a face, and with George Bush--George Bush--finally able to look old Ron in the eye and say, "Well, pard...," it sure feels like I'm choking on a nation-wide haze of loose strands of woollen argyle and wafting fumes of Bean's Best Leather Oil. So I decided to get on a train. Heading north...
...point of view (which was mostly upside-down, over a vomit-filled trash can), but gave me the opportunity to hear the uninhibited ramblings of a highly intelligent, avidly political Slavic major who was shocked to his soul by the victory of two men like George Bush and Dan Quayle...
...that portrayed every campaign success as a product of his handlers' acuity. Bush's eldest son, George W., was installed in a central office at campaign headquarters in part to keep a watchful eye on Bush's effective, but self-congratulatory, hired guns. At least two key aides believe Dan Quayle will be Vice President because Bush insisted on making the choice totally on his own so that his staffers could not claim they selected, engineered or vetoed any candidates themselves. The result of that preoccupation was that Bush operated in total secrecy, and it led to a near disaster...