Word: gaylord
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...activist settled down and entered Harvard Law School with an eye to influencing public policy, but a fateful assignment his first semester changed his life. Required to be an intern in a government office, Hayes called Gaylord Nelson, then a liberal U.S. Senator from Wisconsin, and volunteered to organize a series of teach-ins across the country to call attention to the environment. Energized by the memories of the ravaged forests of his youth, he dropped out of Harvard and devoted his time to organizing rallies, street demonstrations and trash cleanups. It all culminated with the first Earth Day, when...
...think she's a superb scholar and writer, awonderful thinker about literature and all of theissues facing literary scholarship, and I'm goingto miss her very much," said Professor of RomanceLanguages and Literatures Mary Gaylord...
...handpicked House G.O.P. campaign chairman, John Linder, only to watch Linder repay the favor by going over to the plotters. "All we did was raise all these millions of dollars--more money than we've ever had," said a source close to Linder. "Newt and [G.O.P. consultant Joe] Gaylord's job was to piss it all away." Senate majority leader Trent Lott, Gingrich's old coconspirator, couldn't believe Newt was announcing on the day after the elections that one of the G.O.P.'s priorities would now be "saving Social Security." That was Clinton's program, and Lott...
...Washington's shadowy power brokers operate best in secret, JOE GAYLORD is losing his mystique. It was bad enough when Gaylord, eminence grise to NEWT GINGRICH, was blamed for isolating the House Speaker, antagonizing enough Republican brethren to threaten Newt's leadership post earlier this month. Now it turns out Gaylord took $7,500 a month from a Republican think tank so cash starved that HALEY BARBOUR had to obtain a $2.1 million loan guarantee from a Hong Kong businessman to make good on its debts. The National Policy Forum's payments of about $112,000 to Gaylord...
...saying goodbye to his messenger. TOM BLANK, who became the Speaker's director of communications in February and was assigned the Sisyphean task of lifting Gingrich's approval ratings, will return to the private sector by August. G.O.P. leadership sources tell TIME the shake-up was engineered by JOE GAYLORD, an outside adviser to Gingrich whose power has been a constant source of friction on the Speaker's staff and in high G.O.P. circles. "Gaylord is the immovable object in Newt's life," says an aide to a top House Republican. "Tom never had a chance." In what...