Word: jockey
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TEAM SPIRIT IN THE CLINTON CAMP IS SHOWING STRAINS AS the key players jockey for positions in Washington. DEE DEE MYERS had been mentioned for press secretary, but insiders say that George Stephanopoulos has become very fond of TV exposure and the mountains of fan mail he attracts. And what about Paul Begala and Mark Gearan? Transition Central has really cleared things up by telling all four that they will be part of Clinton's Office of the President. Staff members have been sniping that Myers "doesn't look the part of a White House press secretary." Translation...
...grade, and since then he has seldom strayed from the footlights: as a 26-year-old lawyer arguing before the U.S. Supreme Court; as a popular lecturer in political economy at Harvard; as a best-selling and prolific author and essayist, television commentator and corporate consultant. Built like a jockey (4 ft. 10 in. and wiry) and bursting with humor and energy, Reich could always attract and hold an audience, even when playing honky-tonk piano for friends on weekends. And for the past 24 years, he has won some of his loudest applause from a friend named Bill Clinton...
...virtues of the books, surprisingly, is a keen sense of how men and women lived in early American society, or on its margins. The Pioneers describes the growing pains of a frontier town in upstate New York in the 1790s, in which religious sects jockey for advantage and the law turns bully. The Prairie depicts a pioneer clan named Bush, whose family values include squatting and kidnapping. The new nation may have been led by paragons like George Washington and Thomas Jefferson; Cooper's characters were the nation they led. It is our first group self-portrait...
...toward the end, the candidate who had run an almost flawless campaign since June began to coast on his lead, doing and saying nothing to stir things up. Smelling victory, aides began to jockey more vigorously for position, and some eyed jobs in a Clinton Administration. But when Begala crowed to reporters after the first debate that "it's over," an angry candidate chastised him. And in the third and final debate, Bush finally found a focus and intensity that had eluded him and that he has carried into the homestretch. Perot, as maverick as ever, was scoring with what...
...mail room of a New York office building that also happened to house a radio station. Five years later, in 1957, hearing that Miami was a more promising venue, he caught a bus heading south, started pounding on doors and finally was hired as a disk jockey on WAHR. He changed his name to King and soon had his own sports show...