Word: jay
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...blues with doctor cronies off Montauk, on New York's Long Island; Corona Corona cigars; a straw skimmer hat; Herman Wouk. Things that drove him up the wall: misinformation about medicine in movies or on TV; strangers calling him by his first name; my frequent playing of Screamin' Jay Hawkins' I Put a Spell on You; and me, at least before I achieved...
...Jay Inslee (D-Washington) doesn't just represent - and vociferously defend - Microsoft Corp. against its legions of critics (even attending the antitrust trial's closing arguments to show his support), he's also a part owner. Inslee owns 632 shares of Microsoft and his wife owns 332; even in the stock's current funk that's worth about $70,000. Says Inslee: "It is a happy coincidence between what my constituents believe and my interests...
...code, Dick "Short Form" Armey (R-Tex.) listed no assets and a meager teacher's pension as his only additional income... House Minority Leader Richard Gephardt (D-Mo.) is buried in student-loan debt... Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-Neb.), a former investment banker, is worth over $5 million... Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.), perhaps not surprisingly, is worth about $80 million... Rep. Spencer Bachus (R-Ala.) put himself through law school playing the markets and made about $75,000 trading in 1999. "I wouldn't do it if it weren't profitable," he told the Washington Post...
...back up, experts say, even if only a little bit. "It's like going on a diet. You can lose most of the fat in the earliest stages; then it gets harder to lose more, or even retain the loss," says Eli Silverman, a criminal-justice professor at John Jay College. New York's police officials also downplay the significance of the change...
...bill, the Republicans are only 11 votes short of those needed to overcome a veto (it is unclear what form an upcoming Senate bill will take). In the long run, however, this GOP victory may play right into Democrats' campaign plans, says TIME White House correspondent Jay Branegan. "The Democrats are thrilled to have the Republicans sign something like this tax cut," he explains. Reason: It gives Dems a golden opportunity to paint the GOP as having a disregard for the middle class...