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BARBARA (PIERCE) BUSH Born: 1925 De facto single parent while her husband was in oil and politics, she raised her family in seven cities...
Unlike his presumptive running mate, Cheney's not short on political mileage. He's been in D.C. since 1969, serving in the Nixon and Ford administrations, eventually as Ford's de facto chief of staff. In 1978, he was elected a U.S. representative from Wyoming, and served for 10 years before becoming minority whip. Cheney is reportedly especially good at keeping feathers around him unruffled; among his political gifts was the ability to broker peace among congressional Democrats and Republicans...
...create Priceline's biggest challenge. With ever faster, always-on gizmos connected to the Web, we will all have access to ever more information. And if we all know the lowest accepted bid for a certain flight or box of cereal, then won't that bid become the de facto price? Priceline's revolution would then have led us right back to where it began: the world of fixed prices...
...terms; there are only about 100 female pastors among the 40,000 churches that make up the denomination. But its message - which will be accompanied by affirmations of Southern Baptist distaste for racism, homosexuality, pornography, abortion and mercy killing - is unmistakable. "This week's vote will propel previously de facto attitudes into the realm of church law," says TIME religion correspondent David Van Biema. "It's another step toward a complete conservative takeover of the Southern Baptist convention...
...Administration aide. Helms sticks to a few cold war issues like Russia and China and lets the panel's younger Republicans lead hearings on other subjects. But Helms' committee still approves State Department nominees and treaties, a power he has used in a masterly way to become a de facto Foreign Minister...