Word: marshaled
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Bush doesn't want a replay of 1987, when Ronald Reagan named Judge Robert Bork in July and then had to wait until after Labor Day for the Judiciary Committee to start confirmation proceedings. The delay gave Bork's critics ample time to study his record and marshal arguments against him. "As long as you're as close as we are, it's better to get the choice made so you don't get a lot of needless lobbying and pressure," Bush declared before heading for Kennebunkport. He clearly implied that he might announce his choice as early as this...
...voters want Lenin excised, nonetheless, in the well-established Soviet tradition of exorcising demons of the past by rewriting place names. The city of Lugansk has flip-flopped titles four times: Stalin made it Voroshilovgrad, after Marshal Kliment Voroshilov; Khrushchev restored the original name in his anti-Stalin campaign; his successors -- deciding that purge had gone too far -- changed it back to Voroshilovgrad; and finally (well, at least for now), the city is called Lugansk again...
...plans to retire in August, an utterly tantalizing prospect for pundits, pollsters, politicos, agents and headhunters. "I'll try and write a book," he muses. "I don't have the first line. Maybe, 'I was born at a very early age . . .' How's that?" He will play grand marshal at the Kentucky Derby next month, and talks of becoming a first-class salmon fisherman and improving his sporting-clays shooting...
...weeks, the former G.O.P. chairman's public recantation has seemed to echo in political circles. The Sawyer/Miller Group, a New York City-based political consulting firm, which recently lured former Reagan political field marshal Ed Rollins, has sworn off political work. Even Atwater's old firm, Black, Manafort, Stone & Kelly, has made a similar move...
Some of the conservative officers in Moscow are trying to pretend the Iraqi collapse never happened. Marshal Viktor Kulikov told a Soviet news agency that Iraqi soldiers had failed, not Soviet equipment. Marshal Sergei Akhromeyev, an adviser to President Mikhail Gorbachev, said any claim that the gulf war proved the superiority of American arms was "sheer propaganda...