Word: fife
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PHOENIX: A small minority of state voters wish Gov. Fife Symington hadn't announced his resignation yesterday, the same day he was convicted of lying to obtain millions in loans for a now-busted real estate empire. "Some people feel his mistakes as a businessman should be overlooked because he really was turning around this state," says TIME Arizona reporter Laura Laughlin. "The irony is that he had no business success ? he was broke, as we all found out later ? but he wasn't a bad governor...
PHOENIX: For six years Fife Symington has managed to battle on ? and even win reelection as Arizona's governor ? in the face of 21 counts of fraud relating to his real estate empire. For the last two months, he's even managed to balance the dual responsibilities of governor and defendent in a federal trial. Now, with the luck of the devil, he will survive in the statehouse for at least a few more days. U.S. District Judge Roger Strand added an alternate juror today, forcing the Republican Governor's trial to start all over again. The new juror replaces...
...those ineffectual men who take things too far when they are given a little power. In the movies, when an an ordinary person faces great, malign forces, that person is played by Gary Cooper or Harrison Ford. Jewell seems to be a pudgy version of Barney Fife. In this mismatch, he wouldn't appear to have a chance...
...Times's Westword kept dogged watch over the start-up problems at the Denver International Airport last year, while the dailies, the Denver Post and the Rocky Mountain News, were less critical. And the Phoenix New Times beat that city's dailies on the corruption scandals of Governor Fife Symington...
...Speaking at Villanova, Dole said Clinton "talks like Dirty Harry but acts like Barney Fife." As the Democrats were quick to point out, Georgia Governor Zell Miller used that exact analogy in speaking of President Bush at the 1992 Democratic Convention...