Word: elected
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Bush Transportation Secretary Andrew Card, who completed a round of talks with British trade officials last month, is eager to consummate the USAir deal before Christmas, while he is still in charge. President-elect Clinton, on the other hand, has reservations about the deal. While he is eager to find a way to help USAir grow stronger (and protect the jobs of its 47,000 workers), he has said he is concerned about the implications for the U.S. airline industry. If negotiations are not completed before he takes office, Clinton is expected to press Britain for "open skies" concessions...
...staff report that a lawyer from Wyoming called to say he should be made a federal judge; a businessman from Arkansas wrote a five-page letter explaining why he should be named ambassador to the Court of St. James's; and people with the remotest connection to the President-elect say they have not paid for a lunch or dinner in weeks. But there is one man who is so close to power that he does not need to ask for any. He is Bruce Lindsey, a 44-year-old lawyer from Little Rock who is Clinton's closest friend...
...where he met Clinton and a group of other bright young anti-Vietnam War idealists, and he returned to a job there upon graduating in 1971. He earned a law degree in 2 1/2 years at Georgetown University so he could return to Little Rock in time to help elect David Pryor Governor...
...president-elect has promised to put an end to regulations that require homosexuals to remain in the closet if they want to serve their country. I believe Clinton when he says he genuinely opposes discrimination by the military, but I also believe it's an issue he would rather avoid...
...administration has divided loyalties at its very top. President-elect Bill Clinton is a graduate of Yale Law School, while his number...