Word: harkin
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...crafting brilliant legislative initiatives, as getting them passed. In 1965, he teamed up with Senator George McGovern to salvage the faltering food stamps program. In 1990 he brought President Bush around to support the Americans With Disabilities Act, although the legislation bears the name of Iowa Democrat Tom Harkin. In 1982, Dole almost single-handedly reversed a large chunk of Reagan tax cuts in an attempt to control a ballooning deficit, and in 1983 he helped orchestrate the bailout of Social Security, which he lists as his proudest accomplishment. As the Tuesday deadline fast approaches, Dole is spending his last...
...built my own code book--a list of the characters matched with their real-life counterparts. Around page 90 I gave up in exhaustion, having deciphered three dozen names (an insider's Who's Who that includes Grunwald, James Carville, Harold Ickes, David Wilhelm, Stan Greenberg, Bob Kerrey, Tom Harkin, Paul Tsongas and Mario Cuomo). Some of the portraits are so deliciously vicious, I can only assume the author is settling personal scores. Take this description of the fictional stand-in for Hillary's much feared close friend Susan Thomases: "She was awful beyond imagining. She was one of those...
Robinson's efforts compelled democratic Sen. Christopher J. Dodd (D-Conn.) and Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) to tightenthe trade embargo against Haiti and reverse therefugee policy...
Administration: Susan Lynd, Sheila Charney, Donald N. Collins, Corliss M. Duncan, Ann V. King, Anne D. Moffett, Sharon Roberts, Judith R. Stoler News Desks: Pamela H. Thompson, Brian Doyle, Anderson Fils-Aime, Eileen Harkin, Waits L. May III, Susanna Schrobsdorff, Alexander Smith, Diana Tollerson, Ann Drury Wellford, Mary Wormley...
Administration: Susan Lynd, Sheila Charney, Donald N. Collins, Corliss M. Duncan, Ann V. King, Anne D. Moffett, Sharon Roberts, Judith R. Stoler News Desks: Pamela H. Thompson, Brian Doyle, Anderson Fils-Aime, Eileen Harkin, Waits L. May III, Susanna Schrobsdorff, Alexander Smith, Diana Tollerson, Ann Drury Wellford, Mary Wormley...