Word: jims
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...issue has reached critical mass in Washington. Politicians have got the message from constituents that battling violence should be at the top of their agenda, right beside jobs and the economy. "When Congress returns in January, they can once again expect to see me wheeling through the halls," said Jim Brady, the White House press secretary shot by a gunman aiming at President Ronald Reagan in 1981, "a rolling reminder that we must continue to work together to make America safer...
Rare is the player like former Houston Astros pitcher and Ball Four author Jim Bouton, who once said that "I've been tempted to say into a microphone that I fell I won tonight because I don't believe...
...Senator Jim Cooper has one, and the White House isn't happy...
...easily slighted Jackson is already threatening the President's re-election. "He thinks we'll have nowhere to go except with him in '96," says Jackson. "Well, that's what other Democrats thought when they talked the talk but then didn't deliver. Those guys, like ((New Jersey Governor Jim)) Florio, fooled us the first time around. We weren't foolish the second time. Florio didn't lose because the black vote was suppressed. He lost because blacks were depressed and didn't vote...
...more ridiculous the battle seems. "People are only talking about Teale because of the ban," says Bob Levin, an American journalist who is an assistant managing editor at the Toronto newsweekly MacLean's. "The ban has backfired." Some Canadian journalists think a review of such restrictions is long overdue. Jim Coyle of the Ottawa Citizen says the ban is "based on the insulting assumption that the public is a pack of morons who would be irretrievably tainted should they know certain facts...