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...Secretary of Education. The move was widely applauded: in addition to being the highest-ranking Hispanic in the new Administration, Cavazos was an amiable former president of Texas Tech University whose reputation for consensus building contrasted sharply with the contentious style of his predecessor, William Bennett. But the honeymoon is over. Reflecting the view of a growing number of critics, Andrew Griffin, executive officer of the Georgia Association of Educators, dismisses Cavazos as "all talk, no action...
...feel they know their man. "Over the past two years," said Munro, "we have probably spent more time with Steve Ross than with our wives. We feel very comfortable with him." As in all corporate marriages, the trick will be to keep the romance going after the courtship and honeymoon are over...
PROFILE: The quiet Senator who has ended Bush's honeymoon...
Immediately after his wedding, Daniel Evans and his bride dropped everything in their hectic lives for a six-month honeymoon in Europe...
Bush's widely touted "honeymoon" with Congress, already endangered by his vagueness on the budget, was ending sooner than that of any new President in recent memory. Though the President cannot get anything done without the cooperation of at least some members of the Democratic congressional majorities, the task of wooing them will now be harder. Within the Administration, the absence of a Secretary of Defense able to assert the Pentagon's view will prolong the review of foreign and national-security problems that Bush insists on completing before he makes major international- policy moves...