Word: lifer
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...widely credited with helping to pull the party’s losing presidential ticket to victory in the Keystone State. Seeing Casey’s strength, Sen. Charles E. Schumer ’71, D-N.Y., who chairs the Democrats’ Senate campaign committee, persuaded the pro-lifer to run for the Senate next year against Sen. Rick Santorum, R-Penn.—a formidable, but extremely right-wing incumbent. And in doing so, Schumer muscled aside a fellow pro-choice politician, who also happened to be a well-qualified woman...
...sound middle ground for those on both sides of the issue to approach [March 7]. I hope the argument of moral consequences vs. a woman's right to choose can be set aside in order to focus on what everyone really wants: fewer abortions. As a staunch pro-lifer and Christian, I have a hard time admitting that we need to increase access to contraception, but I certainly would accept pills and condoms (with a healthy dose of lessons on abstinence and self-control) to avoid the taking of human life...
Each of the few who did make a run for it was hamstrung in some way, such as former Texas Representative Martin Frost, still hurting from a bitter power struggle with House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi, and former Indiana Representative Tim Roemer, a pro-lifer who voted for George W. Bush's tax cuts and against Bill Clinton's 1993 economic plan...
...office of CEO John Thain, the M.I.T. grad and former president of Goldman Sachs who had to be talked into taking the job after former CEO and chairman Richard Grasso's bitter departure amid an excessive-pay flap and charges of board cronyism. Grasso, a passionate stock-exchange lifer, famously littered his office with several hundred treasured mementos from the companies whose shares are traded at the exchange. The more clinical Thain, 49, displays mainly his own collection of modern art. But he's putting his stamp on more than the office walls. Thain calls restoring the Big Board...
...clear that Ruby Tuesday's diners want such stomach-turning information. But Beall, 55, the son of a nuclear engineer and himself a college dropout and restaurant-industry lifer, is giving it to them--and more. In November, Ruby Tuesday became the nation's largest casual-dining chain to start frying foods in canola oil, which is free of trans fats. The company posts nutrition tips on every table. After just a few months of testing, Beall this spring unveiled an expanded "smart eating" menu featuring fish, fresh vegetables and lean proteins such as turkey. He has ambitious plans...