Word: kansan
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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DIED. JOHN CAMERON SWAYZE, 89, newscaster turned pitchman; in Sarasota, Florida. Swayze found fame in 1949 "hopscotching the world for headlines" on Camel News Caravan, a network-news prototype. The Kansan later attained pop icondom hawking Timex watches, the ones that would "take a licking and keep on ticking...
Luckily for the women, Koch, reincarnated as the Daddy Warbucks of diversity, wants to provide them with the swiftest boat money can buy. The iconoclastic Kansan, heir to an oil fortune, spent $68 million to win the 1992 cup -- and he is passing on many of his assets, including his two best yachts as training vessels, a huge inventory of masts, sails, rigging and tools, and reams of computer, design and meteorological data. Koch also contributed $5 million in seed money -- a quarter of the women's budget -- to hire some 90 top-level coaches, engineers, fund raisers and public...
...Kansan for Agriculture...
Recently defeated Democratic Congressman Dan Glickman of Kansas was tapped by President Clinton to become his new Secretary of Agriculture. With the support of incoming Senate majority leader and fellow Kansan Bob Dole, Glickman is expected to win swift confirmation. His prize: heading a department that faces < major cutbacks and reorganization in the months ahead. The previous Secretary, Mike Espy, left under the cloud of an independent counsel's ethics investigation...
...Senate, Tom Daschle of South Dakota was voted in as minority leader over Connecticut's Christopher Dodd. On the other side of the aisle, veteran Senate Republican whip Alan Simpson of | Wyoming was edged out by Mississippi's Trent Lott for the party's No. 2 leadership spot, while Kansan Bob Dole was unsurprisingly elected majority leader...