Word: jim
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...post as a bully pulpit for his legendary Democrat bashing. In 1984 Gingrich enraged then Speaker Tip O'Neill by vehemently accusing Democratic lawmakers of blindness to the Communist threat. It was Gingrich who fomented the House Ethics Committee's investigation of O'Neill's successor, Jim Wright of Texas. In a characteristically antagonistic oratorical flourish, Gingrich accused Wright, as well as other Democratic leaders, of having a "Mussolini-like...
...spring arrived on the Texas prairie last week, farmers and ranchers were fighting a range war that packed all the fury of a Panhandle twister. At the eye of the storm was Jim Hightower, the state's populist, barb-witted agriculture commissioner. Outside Texas, Hightower is best known for regaling the Democratic National Convention last year with his zingers about George Bush, who he said "was born on third base and thinks he hit a triple." Hightower provoked national attention again early this year when he urged cattlemen to grow hormone-free cattle in response to the European Community...
...grain-elevator operators and pesticide makers, who charged that Hightower is pursuing political ambitions instead of looking after the state's farmers. But supporters of small-farm interests rallied just as staunchly to his defense. Said Joe Rankin, president of the Texas Farmers Union: "The entrenched powers feel alienated. Jim won't get into bed with the good ole boys...
...agency with authority over Los Angeles, last week adopted a sweeping 20-year antipollution plan. It will not only drastically curtail automobile use in the Los Angeles basin but also convert virtually all vehicles to the use of nonpolluting fuels by 2009. "The public is ready for change," declares Jim Lents, executive officer of the management district. "This plan signals the beginning of that process...
...Alex had a couple of early season defeats coming off the football thing," Harvard wrestling Coach Jim Peckham says. "But he always came through for us and made our scores respectable...