Word: jimming
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Congressman Jim Leach, the Iowa Republican, was a terrific public servant for 30 years. He was always independent, always scrupulously honest. He lost this year, and the manner of his losing is instructive. He refused to allow the Republican National Committee to distribute a negative mailing about his opponent. He called Ken Mehlman, then the r.n.c. chair, and threatened to caucus with the Democrats if such negative mailings didn't stop. They stopped, but the Congressman lost narrowly to an academic named Dave Loebsack, who had similarly refused to attack him. A former foreign service officer, Leach would make...
...found its own voice, satirizing the culture of coffee, cubicles and Chili's with heart and laser precision. The deep bench of its cast provides a pointillistic taxonomy of American office life (who doesn't work with an Angela, a Kevin or a Stanley?). And the wistful Pam-and-Jim almost-romance--all together now: Awww!--threatens to give the Sam-and-Diane saga a run for its long-unconsummated money...
...JIM MCGREEVEY, the former New Jersey Governor, was the most contrite of Oprah's celebrity apologizers. Two years after saying "I am a gay American," he talked tactfully about his trysts, even though he wasn't promoting a book. Oh wait...
...play on Mojica’s jumper, but the pattern from the first half held true again. Harvard began to close once more, and this time the Blue Devils did not have their nearly 20-point cushion to blunt the attack. A 15-4 Harvard run, begun by captain Jim Goffredo’s first field goal of the game, on a back door cut to the hoop, and ended by his first and last three-point field goal, tied the score at 48 and let the Blue Devils know that they were no longer in control of the contest.Harvard...
...breaker - on an "out clause" that stipulates that control of the chamber goes to them if they somehow manage to achieve a majority during the course of the session. As both sides remember, that clause came in handy for the Democrats a few months later, when Vermont's Jim Jeffords abruptly declared himself an independent and gave the Democrats a one-vote majority...