Word: jims
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Moaning is about the best Republicans and other critics have managed since Florio, a former amateur boxer, beat G.O.P. candidate Jim Courter last fall in a campaign that got nasty on both sides. In his inaugural speech, the new Governor whacked at the state's auto-insurance premiums, the nation's highest; within weeks he had signed a 20% reduction into law. He quickly followed with a blow to the powerful gun lobby: in May, New Jersey enacted the stiffest law in the U.S. on owning or selling semiautomatic firearms. In March he launched his attack on the state...
...somewhat sanctimonious loner, better known for tending to constituent needs than for innovative leadership. Even as a candidate, he skirted specifics, going so far as to proclaim that he did not see the need for new taxes. But budget realities and the assumption of command revealed a very different Jim Florio. "Legislatures react," he says crisply. "Executives initiate." With 67% of New Jerseyites grudgingly agreeing that new taxes were inevitable, Florio worked them relentlessly for support of his proposals. In diners, gyms, boardrooms and convention halls, he explained his position again and again. "A lot of politicians are just plain...
John Bartholomew Tucker wins the prize for the year's best mystery title: He's Dead -- She's Dead: Details at Eleven (St. Martin's Press; 312 pages; $17.95). The puzzler that follows is just as piquant. Jim Sasser, onetime TV commentator and now a writer of thrillers, stops by the network to see an old Vietnam war buddy. He is not a happy camper. Cost cutting is under way, firings are the order of the day, and a terrorist is threatening to do some eliminating of his own. For a lark, Sasser decides to probe, just...
...certainly does. And what it reflects pains Jim Schlosser, a veteran reporter on race for the Greensboro News & Record. "In the 1960s," says Schlosser, "when we talked about a color-blind society, we thought we'd party together, we'd live on the same block. But maybe our expectations were unrealistic. Maybe we are a separate society." Perhaps whites have been too paternalistic, too insensitive, too impatient. Maybe blacks have been overly sensitive, too defensive, too race conscious. Both sides are paralyzed by confusion; neither fully understands the other...
...said Jarvis, who has not decided on future plans. "ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY may have been my idea, but it's their magazine." E.W.'s stunned staff members anxiously sought out word of mouth about their new boss. In announcing Seymore's appointment, Time Warner editor- in-chief Jason McManus said, "Jim is an inventive, imaginative and skillful editor. By talent and temperament, coupled with his background and interest in the subject of entertainment, he is very well suited for his new assignment...