Word: lungingly
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Durbin put himself through school after his father died of lung cancer, giving him working-class roots and a chance to highlight his opponent's millionaire status. After 13 years in Congress and an endorsement from retiring Senator Paul Simon, Durbin is the favorite...
Former history teacher Poshard is keeping the Democratic tradition of the 19th alive by lobbying for his farm and coal-miner constituents--disability benefits for those with black-lung disease, research on "clean coal," water projects for agriculture--but he also wants federal spending curbed. It's a political one-two punch likely to keep the likeable Poshard in office another two years...
Running as an "Emercrat," Bill Emerson had been the first Republican to carry the Eighth District in 50 years. Lung cancer took the eight-term Congressman's life this year, and his widow is the G.O.P. nominee in a "special election" to finish his term, which officially ends in January. However, in a bizarre electoral twist, she is also running--as an Independent, on the same day--to win the seat for the next term...
...fourth straight election, Democrats are not running an opponent against Spence, the 13-term incumbent whose district is dominated by affluent--and Republican--suburbs. But Spence, a former Navy officer and the survivor of a double lung transplant, won't know until after Election Day whether House balance of power will allow him to remain head of its National Security Committee...
ALREADY OUT: Representatives Mel Reynolds and Walter Tucker and Senator Bob Packwood quit because of scandal. Representative Kweisi Mfume took over the NAACP. Representative Norman Mineta took a job at Lockheed. Representative Bill Emerson died of lung cancer...