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...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...
Republican Fife Symington has waged two successful campaigns for Governor of Arizona by touting himself as a manager and an entrepreneur. "He told people that he'd run Arizona like a business," says state Democratic chairman Sam Coppersmith. "Every Arizonan has been praying that he didn't mean like his business...
...heir to the Frick steel fortune whose relatives have figured in business and government for centuries, John Fife Symington III made his local reputation as a real estate developer. But 13 of his projects went belly up. One, the Phoenix Mercado mall, was financed with $10 million from six union pension funds, which sued for repayment, eventually forcing Symington into bankruptcy...
...million in debt. Symington's lawyer, John Dowd, calls these "unintended errors and omissions.'' To confuse the issue, Symington's wife Ann Olin Pritzlaff Symington has her own inherited wealth. "When it was convenient, they called it Ann's separate property, and when it was convenient, they called it Fife's," says Manning...