Word: fife
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NORM STAMPER Seattle police chief quits after WTO fiasco. Picture Barney Fife with a latte
Another dilemma for the Agency is that the better qualified the candidate, the lengthier the clearance process becomes. It would be easy to clear Andy Taylor or Barney Fife, as they spent most of their lives in Mayberry. But for the well-traveled, internationally-connected and ultimately more valuable candidate, the CIA has to devote greater time and resources to scrutinizing the past for possible complications. Moreover, with the Aldrich Ames betrayal to the KGB and allegations of espionage by nuclear scientist Wen Ho Lee, the CIA may be pressured to conduct even more comprehensive checks on potential employees...
OVERTURNED. The 1997 conviction of FIFE SYMINGTON, 53, former Governor of Arizona; for bank fraud; by a federal appeals court; in San Francisco. Symington never went to jail. The judge said a juror who believed in his innocence was wrongly dismissed during deliberations...
...With a fife player and a drummer leading the way, about 100 inductees and a smaller number of Faculty--all dressed in full academic regalia--proceeded from Boylston Hall in the Yard to Sanders. There, away from the sweltering midday heat, the students and their supporters filled the entire bottom level of the theater...
...Graham Keegan, who has just begun her second term as Arizona's superintendent of public instruction, decided to enter politics when she was watching the impeachment and ouster of Governor Evan Mecham. After she became education chief, in 1995, Keegan battled with Governor--and soon to be convicted felon--Fife Symington. When she suggested that he resign, a Symington crony said she was having "a bad hair day." Last week Keegan joined Governor Jane Hull, secretary of state Betsey Bayless, treasurer Carol Springer and attorney general Janet Napolitano (the lone Democrat) in the nation's first all-female state administration...