Word: jim
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Lindner's largesse--called or wrote or met with Kantor and the President to encourage action on behalf of Chiquita. Trent Lott of Mississippi, the Republican majority leader in the Senate, did it. So did John Glenn, at the time a Democratic Senator from Ohio. And Republican Congressman Jim Bunning of Kentucky, now a Senator. And Charles Stenholm, the Democratic Representative from Texas. And Richard Lugar, the Republican Senator from Indiana. And Mike DeWine, the Republican Senator from Ohio. And, of course, Mitch McConnell, the Republican Senator from Kentucky, who is Congress's most strident advocate of unlimited money...
...appreciate Jim, Kyle and Sterling's concerns and they were taken into consideration before Fentrice...and I made up our minds one-two-three times.... So basically, no change," he wrote...
...rounds of voting have been taken so far, both identical. Kathleen L. Born has led with four votes so far--hers and those of Jim Braude, Henrietta Davis and Marjorie C. Decker. Michael A. Sullivan has captured three votes--his and those of David P. Maher and Kenneth E. Reeves '72, while Anthony D. Galluccio has two votes (his own and that of Timothy J. Toomey...
...When Jim Barksdale started school in Jackson, Miss., he had trouble learning to read. In the third grade he still stumbled over simple words. So his parents got him a private tutor, and that changed his life. He became a good student and later an exceptional corporate leader. When he sold Netscape, he pocketed $700 million. Last week he brought a big chunk of that money back to his home state...
...Jim and Sally Barksdale had been thinking about ways they could promote literacy in Mississippi. Richard Thompson, the state superintendent of education, says he read about the Barksdales' interest in a newspaper, "so I called Jim up." After long conversations, a joint venture was created between Ole Miss, the state department of education and seven other state universities. The effort, says Barksdale, will attack illiteracy "at the source," in the early grades. It will also teach illiterate parents to read, so they can help their kids...