Word: kemp
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...player as was the once obscure, two-term Michigan Congressman and former Harvard Divinity School student. After the 1980 election, Stockman was so little known in the Reagan camp that he was not invited to the President-elect's major planning sessions in Los Angeles. But Congressman Jack Kemp of New York, then a mentor of Stockman's, brought along a memo his protégé had written called "Avoiding a G.O.P. Economic Dunkirk" and recommended him as Budget Director...
...hopes to find a way to complete it without having to sit in classrooms full of people, a prospect he can't bear. He walked out on a job answering phones for a credit-card company last month and spends his days on his father's farm in Kemp, Texas, working...
...voted for Bush in 2004, up from 8% in 2000. Mfume notes that the N.A.A.C.P.'s 64-member board of directors has more than a dozen Republicans. And the nine-member executive search committee charged with finding Mfume's successor includes in its ranks a prominent white Republican, Jack Kemp, who was Housing Secretary under President George H. W. Bush...
...some ways, this Republican faction signals a return to the original political allegiances of African Americans. In homage to Abraham Lincoln's ending slavery, most blacks voted Republican until Democrat Franklin Delano Roosevelt wooed them into his New Deal coalition in 1932. Now the Republicans are injecting different ideas. Kemp, for example, suggests that the government eliminate capital-gains taxes on inner-city entrepreneurs in order to put more funds into urban pockets of impoverishment. Only 5% of blacks are self-employed, vs. 11% of whites...
...unoriginal comedies Adam. And although most of the songs on the album have been remixed ad nauseam, this is the first time Spandau Ballet’s “True†has been turned into a rap song, but to unfortunate results; I fear Gary Kemp would not approve as WILL.I.AM and FERGIE manage to ruin a classic love song that has been a favorite for many years...