Word: handler
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...first priority: tax cutting or deficit cutting. He recently described the economy as being "in the tank," although each new piece of economic data suggests otherwise. The lack of discipline reached the point where policy czar Donald Rumsfeld, a former Nixon aide, urged Reed to put a stronger handler--plus four personal secretaries--on the plane with Dole, just the way Nixon used to travel. Reed asked Margaret Tutwiler, a longtime top aide to former Secretary of State James Baker, to take over the fuselage team. "If Margaret Tutwiler is supposed to be the adult supervisor on the plane," said...
...ponder New York City all day without associating it with Thomas Wolfe, and San Francisco for a month without thinking of Tony Bennett, but Chicago is the Hog Butcher and "player with railroads and nation's freight handler." Though the trains don't run, and though the hogs are gone...
...captured commandos off the pay rosters and telling their families they were dead; SOG officers continued the practice. "I think it's terrible, I really do," says George Gaspard, who as a Green Beret major in Vietnam ran a related SOG program code named Oplan-34B. "As an agent handler, that would be appalling to me to write somebody off the books that...
...DIAMONDS Jewelry heists haven't the cachet they once had. When the Duchess of York, SARAH FERGUSON, lost a diamond necklace and bracelet somewhere between J.F.K. and Heathrow airports, the FBI and British Airways tracked them down to a shed belonging to Gilbert Terrero, a J.F.K. baggage handler who is possibly in need of a subscription to PEOPLE. The Terrero family claims Gilbert, who was arrested, found the gems and didn't know whose they were. Opined sister Wanda: "I wore nicer jewelry for my Sweet...
...What's a handler to do with a President who is addicted to bouts of over-the-phone self-analysis with not always friendly reporters? Sigh--and then insist the reporters have taken key phrases out of context. Such was the White House response after columnist Ben Wattenberg published excerpts of a telephone call he recently received from President Clinton. According to Wattenberg, the voluble Clinton offered a self-critique of his first two years: the President had "lost the language" appropriate to a moderate New Democrat; he had become too interested in the "legislative scorecard"; he had erred...