Word: frist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...full of miracle cures. They gave few specifics, but never mind. Voters were convinced that their generic bromides looked better than what the Democrats . had been peddling. Of those who uprooted hardy Democratic perennials, few were more unlikely than Texas Congressman-elect Steve Stockman and Tennessee Senator-elect Bill Frist...
...house painter and occasional accountant. The most effective element of his platform was simply not being 21-term Congressman Jack Brooks, who, if he had been re-elected, would have been the most senior member of the House. Being a Congressman will be Stockman's first steady job. Bill Frist, a heart-and-lung surgeon from Nashville, Tennessee, knocked off 18-year Senate veteran Jim Sasser by campaigning against the things Sasser was for: gun control, abortion rights and Washington pols telling people not to smoke in Old Smoky country. The main requirements for success among the neophytes were work...
...Bill Frist, 42, outspent his opponent Sasser nearly 3 to 2 -- $4.5 million to $2.8 million -- including $3.7 million of his own money from his family's chain of hospitals, Columbia/HCA. He imported an out-of-state gunslinger -- political consultant Tom Perdue who advised Senator Paul Coverdell of Georgia in his upset win two years ago over Wyche Fowler. Frist went strongly negative on the "liberal, taxing, two-faced" Jim Sasser, running an ad picturing Sasser's face on Mount Rushmore alongside Ted Kennedy's and Dan Rostenkowski's and saying, "Eighteen years is long enough." Last February only...
...time Sasser got serious, he couldn't adjust to the new landscape, where promising to bring a multimillion dollar federal wind-tunnel project was just what the voters had soured on. Sasser triumphed in their first debate, but Frist turned his lackluster performance into another sign that he wasn't a smoothie from the big city. Sasser then turned negative, pointing out that Dr. Frist had masqueraded as a pet lover to get cats from an animal shelter to use in lab experiments, that he had not even registered to vote until six years ago. The Senator pointed...
Difficult as taking the high road may be, however candidates would do well to watch what they say today, because tomorrow their words could come back to haunt them. For example, Bill Frist, a physician who is seeking to displace Sen. Jim Sasser (D-Tenn.), may not be using this slogan in a few years, if he wins his seat: "Bill Frist supports term limits to stop career politicians, and the death penalty to stop career criminals...