Word: harrimans
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Unlike many Southern pols, Clinton does not have a Velcro personality, attaching country ways at home, then peeling them away in the fund-raising parlors of Norman Lear and Pamela Harriman. He makes $35,000 a year (supplemented by his wife's salary as a lawyer). He helps his daughter Chelsea, 11, with algebra by fax from the road. He is passionate about crossword puzzles, and golfs and vacations every year with a group of close friends in South Carolina. He has been wearing off-the-rack clothes since the word got out that one of his suits cost...
...double hit. Its annual fund raiser in Washington was picketed by feminists, and the liberal direct-mail firm of Craver, Matthews, Smith announced it was dropping the group as a client. Some of the party's most loyal contributors, including MCA chairman Lew Wasserman and Democratic doyenne Pamela Harriman, put the party on notice that they would not raise a dime for the 11 Democratic Senators who gave Thomas his slim victory...
...unknown is operating on a historic scale, it conjures up apocalyptic projections. Dick Elkus, an advisory-board member of the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies, predicted, "What has happened so far is a 6.0 earthquake on its way to becoming an 8.3 -- 900 times greater." The Harriman Institute's Richard Ericson said, "We are facing what is perhaps the largest man-made disaster the world has ever seen...
Robert Legvold. Director of the Harriman Institute for Advanced Study of the Soviet Union at Columbia University...
...Columbia Law School in 1922. Twenty-five years ago, Minnesota's Senator Hubert Humphrey palmed his way around the stately chambers in the righteous sheen of polyester. And a labor leader like George Meany still had the hands of a plumber. If there was anybody at the Harriman reception who had done physical labor in the past 10 years, or now makes less than six figures, he was parking the Mercedes for the guests...