Word: fellows
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...intraparty fights -- over personnel now and policy later. The toughest test that Bush and Baker face on the home front of their foreign policy will not be whether they are able to sit down and compromise with the Democrats but whether they are able to stand up to their fellow Republicans...
Agents follow common-sense rules. They choose covers as close to the truth as possible. In one case, Leach assumed the role of a dealer in deer and other exotic meats. When he and fellow agents busted his principal supplier, the man grabbed his pistol, and Leach found himself wrestling the gun away from his head...
LAST week, two freshmen presented a petition protesting the College's new housing lottery process, and convinced more than 1200 of their fellow classmates to sign it. The Undergraduate Council agreed to back the petition and pay for all costs of producing...
...provoking a barrage of angry calls from outraged citizens. Republican Senator Gordon Humphrey of New Hampshire juxtaposed a bandit's mask with a portrait of Wright, solemnly intoning that "a pay raise without a vote is stealing." Later Humphrey came as close to blows as Senators ever do with fellow Republican Ted Stevens of Alaska, who favors the pay hike, during a heated exchange at a committee hearing on the subject. Some of Wright's House colleagues, the vast majority of whom want the raise, have started comparing him, unfavorably, with Sam Rayburn, another Texan who once occupied the Speaker...
When the crisis had passed, a Kennedy insider told the following story: When the President and his inner circle were briefed on the plans to hurry to the South Lawn for the helicopter lift, one aide was deeply troubled. This fellow went to the President and told Kennedy that he did not plan to leave the White House and his family, attack or not. Kennedy reportedly looked up with that wry smile on his face and said, "That's O.K. Neither do I. I'm staying right here." So much for the doomsday scenario...