Word: jim
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Jim Wright, the sinking Speaker of the House, summoned the media to say he was delighted that the big hearing this Tuesday on his motion to dismiss charges of breaking House rules will be wide open and televised. This after he and his phalanx of lawyers spent ten days fighting to keep the session off the screen. The monster just would not heel. Television will likely encourage...
Councilman Jim Street, a proponent of the construction limitations, explains that many citizens "believe the direction of the city has been parting from their values -- open space, reasonable traffic, retaining the characters of the neighborhoods, a downtown that's ((built on)) a more human scale." Says Barbara Dingfield, an opponent of the restrictions: "In 1972, during the Boeing bust, we would have voted to increase building heights, we would have voted for an airport. A lot of that is driven by what the sense of the local economy...
WASHINGTON--House Speaker Jim Wright (D-Texas) has all but decided to resign, friends said yesterday, but he remained torn over details of his leaving and insisted he had "done no serious wrong" despite numerous ethics allegations...
...often before, troops moved through the night; a defiant dictatorship strode the dark streets of a tiny, helpless nation; NATO complained and quibbled; the Soviets unexpectedly moved a bishop in the great chess game of power. The convicted ghost of Ollie North haunted Pennsylvania Avenue, and House Speaker Jim Wright -- a linchpin in this Government, like him or not -- teetered. The weary old terrestrial sphere was either too hot or too cold and capricious in doling out its moisture. God may be in his heaven, but for the nonce he is not a Republican...
Last week John Mack, 35, gave in and quit as the top legislative aide to House Speaker Jim Wright. The furor had stemmed from the Washington Post's curiously timed recounting of Mack's savage knife and hammer assault on college student Pamela Small more than 15 years ago. After serving only 27 months in a county jail for the felony, he had been hired as a $9,000-a-year clerk by Wright, whose daughter was married to Mack's brother...