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...That's where Daley, master arm-twister, consummate backroom pol, comes in. Daley's job will be to keep the operation lean and on schedule, and keep Gore's political radar finely tuned at all times. But he does carry one piece of baggage: His ardent and very effective muscling of the China trade bill through the House last month. Gore did some serious tiptoeing to deflect most of the unions' ire onto Clinton, who could afford it; now Gore's got the China bill's - and NAFTA's - main champion as his right-hand...
...family moved there not long after her daughter's birth. At this point, she had begun to lean toward accepting life as a traditional wife and mother...
...recent years, much of higher education's focus has turned to technology, as emphasized by the recent selection of Silicon Valley entrepreneur John L. Hennessy as Stanford's next president. Rudenstine's successor may well lean towards fields of science and technology...
...ensure passage in the House next week. A suspense, says Branegan, that Republicans are in no hurry to dispel. "The White House believes that the Republican vote-counters are holding back their true numbers," he says. "The lower their count is, the more Demorats the White House has to lean on to get to 218. Those confrontations create bad blood, bruises, divisions. The Republicans love that." But behind the scenes, Republican hatchet man Tom DeLay is pushing his colleagues almost as hard as the White House is pushing Democrats. "When it came out recently that high tech was giving...
...hate me because I'm beautiful. I was a Jabba the Hut baby for like two days and ever since then, I've been a lean, mean, pop culture machine. (Don't you love fat babies? You can knock them over and they'll stay there for days!) Actually, every one is holding their breath in anticipation because my mom has been a toothpick since birth and my dad started out a twig and got his healthy gut around age 20 or 21. So it's 50-50-am I gonna be a size 30 waist and have a flat...