Word: jaking
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Alan Simpson of Wyoming, a popular and witty conservative, easily won election as majority whip. But two Northeastern moderates, Rhode Island's John Chafee and Pennsylvania's John Heinz, nosed out Western Conservatives Jake Garn of Utah and Malcolm Wallop of Wyoming for the chairmanships of the Republican Conference of the Senate and the National Republican Senatorial Committee, which serve as the party caucus and fund-raising arm, respectively. Both men are notably less conservative than McClure and Lugar. whom they replace. "The White House is not going to like it." said one moderate Republican Senator...
...issues, including those relating to peer sexual harassment, a College non-discrimination clause that protects gay people, and student-faculty contact. Perhaps Mr. Patullo (who was director of Harvard's Center for Behavioral Sciences) would like to contribute to those endeavors rather that seeking justifications for homophobia and sexism. Jake Stevens...
...time Tennessee's Jacob Franklin ("Jake") Butcher hobnobbed with the likes of Jimmy Carter and Bert Lance, controlled 26 banks with his brother and had an estimated personal worth of $400 million. But his fall has been as spectacular as his rise. In 1983 Butcher went broke, and ten of the banks were declared insolvent. Last week Butcher, 48, together with a longtime business associate and a lawyer, was indicted by a federal grand jury in Knoxville, Tenn...
...story of Jake Rubin (played with starched-collar sobriety by Peter Riegert) is straight out of a grade-B musical bio. Jake goes to work as a waiter but is soon writing songs for a gruff but good-hearted music publisher (Stubby Kaye). Eventually he is the toast of Broadway, rubbing shoulders with Flo Ziegfeld and wooing a nightclub singer (Ann Jillian) whom he marries and makes a star. "When I first saw the Statue of Liberty," he tells her, "I thought it was the most beautiful sight I'd ever seen. But I hadn't seen...
...riches cliche. A strapping Italian hunk, he becomes the rich actress's kept man, uses her money to start himself in business, then (after eluding an attempt to deport him) vows to get an education and make lots of money. "I'm gonna have it all, Jake," he announces, celebrating what is surely that line's 100th anniversary in show business. The soap opera continues with Bridget and Georgie O'Donnell (Alice Krige and Judi Bowker), a pair of sisters who flee Ireland when Bridget is implicated in a political kidnaping. She marries a doctor...