Word: leaching
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that, they contend, would lower interest rates and help bring down deficits); an end to the independence of the Federal Reserve; and an ironclad pledge against tax hikes. Meanwhile, the so-called Mainstream Republican Committee, a band of moderate-to-liberal House members led by Iowa's Jim Leach, has been tugging in the opposite direction: they are pro-choice on abortion and flexible on the question of tax increases...
...campaigns, while an individual can contribute only $1,000). The unintended result: in the decade since 1974 the number of PACs has grown from 608 to 3,803; in the same period, annual PAC donations have leaped from $12.5 million to an estimated $120 million. Says Republican Congressman Jim Leach of Iowa, a virulent PAC opponent: "It's a myth to think they don't want something in return...
...Democratic Senators David Boren of Oklahoma and William Proxmire of Wisconsin; Democratic Congressmen Anthony Beilenson of California, Andrew Jacobs Jr. of Indiana and William Natcher of Kentucky; Republican Congressmen Bill Archer of Texas, William Goodling of Pennsylvania, Willis Gradison Jr. of Ohio, Jim Leach of Iowa and Ralph Regula of Ohio...
...more than halfway through a routine 20-mile run in Maine in preparation for the Olympic marathon, she felt a sharp stab on the outside of her right knee. Within the next mile, she recalls, "the knee completely prevented me from running another step." Her doctor, Orthopedic Surgeon Robert Leach of Boston University Medical Center, gave her an injection of cortisone. After a week's rest Benoit resumed training, but in early April she again had to "walk out of a run." This time Benoit was referred to Orthopedic Surgeon Stan James, in Eugene, Ore., whose roster of patients...
Game-Winning RBI--Leach. E--Harvard 5, MIT 1. LOB--Harvard 5, MIT 7, 38--Anderson, DP--Harvard 1. S--Tandura, Bellinger, Rubin, CS--Brown...