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...through lower-echelon appointments, he has since discovered that there too Sununu has the power to thwart him. Robert Fulton, picked by Sullivan to be director of the Family Support Administration, withdrew from consideration after persistent questions from the White House about his philosophy on abortion. So did William Danforth, whom Sullivan wanted to head the NIH. Sullivan says that while there are other reasons the NIH director's job has been hard to fill, including questions about salary and the Institutes' structure, the White House's phone grilling of Danforth "made a bad situation almost impossible...
...President, who traveled across the Potomac to the Iwo Jima Memorial -- cameras in hot pursuit -- to denounce the ruling and demand a constitutional amendment. But when the proposal came to the Senate floor last week, cooler heads prevailed. Two Republicans who originally supported the amendment, John Danforth of Missouri and Warren Rudman of New Hampshire, changed their mind, giving others the courage to follow. The amendment, which needed a two-thirds majority, or 67 votes, got just...
Furthermore, it is probably no accident that the president's chief rah-rah boy, Vice President J. Danforth Quayle himself, is reportedly the driving force urging Bush to return to space. Quayle, whose scientific background is questionable at best, has in the last year raised to new heights the dominance of image over substance in American politics...
Some carriers also have virtually monopolistic shares of the business in their "hub" airports and control so-called feeder airlines that funnel passengers into their route systems from outlying areas. Says Missouri's John Danforth, ranking Republican on the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee: "Deregulation initially worked as it was intended to work. But increasingly competition has faded away. As of this point in time, deregulation has failed...
Even so, consumer advocates fear that with the scarcity of competing ; carriers at many airports, surviving airlines will not hesitate to roll prices back up. At Danforth's urging, the General Accounting Office is currently comparing changes in airfares over the past five years at 53 airports to determine whether carriers that dominate traffic at certain hubs are jacking up their prices to exorbitant levels...