Word: gramm
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...farmer-friendly commissioner and former state legislator would have been a happy man if Phil Gramm had won the G.O.P. presidential nomination; Perry was considered an odds-on favorite to take Gramm's Senate seat if it opened up. A former Air Force pilot, Perry, 46, flies his own plane around the state checking on ranchers and farmers. "He has a very bright future," Gramm said at a lunch at the 1992 G.O.P. convention in Houston. "I have no doubt in my mind, Rick someday is either going to be Governor of our state or a Senator from Texas." Four...
...acceptable alternative: "Republicans: Protecting individual rights from the moment of conception ... until birth." Maybe they didn't get it. One way or another, as tempers heat up, Rachel Shein's ice cream shop hopes to cool them down with some new flavors: Bob Dole Pineapple, Fig Newt Gingrich, Phil Gramm Cracker, Forbes Flat-Tax Fudge, and Peppermint Pattie Buchanan. With a sprig of Bay? Terence Nelan
...acceptable alternative: "Republicans: Protecting individual rights from the moment of conception ... until birth." Maybe they didn't get it. One way or another, as tempers heat up, Rachel Shein's ice cream shop hopes to cool them down with some new flavors: Bob Dole Pineapple, Fig Newt Gingrich, Phil Gramm Cracker, Forbes Flat-Tax Fudge, and Peppermint Pattie Buchanan. With a sprig of Bay? Terence Nelan
Whatever its provenance, Elizabeth Dole's Christian commitment also yields political dividends. Charles Black, former chairman of Senator Phil Gramm's presidential campaign, affirms that "she has tremendous appeal to Christian conservatives and people in the evangelical movement because they know she's active in the movement." They may have doubts about Bob Dole, who sometimes seems to regard God as a junior Senator from an unimportant state, but they don't harbor any about his wife. Even within the Dole household, politics and religion have not mixed perfectly. When a new minister joined the Foundry Methodist Church...
...Senate leadership, which includes majority whip Don Nickles of Oklahoma, Cochran as chairman of the G.O.P. conference committee, Florida's Connie Mack as its secretary and Idaho's Larry Craig, Public Enemy No. 1 for gun-control supporters and environmentalists, as chairman of the G.O.P. policy committee. Phil Gramm of Texas happily predicts "a more aggressive Senate...