Word: maverickly
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...polls indicated that the public could not understand how Congressmen making $125,100 a year had so much difficulty balancing their checkbooks. Republicans seized on the issue, knowing that public contempt for Congress would be especially damaging to the Democrats, who enjoy a 102-seat majority in the House. Maverick G.O.P. presidential candidate Pat Buchanan, for example, began blasting "those check-kiting boodling Congressmen" and called for appointment of a special prosecutor...
...common with this walking Experiment in Living, the antinuclear former seminarian who has washed lepers with Mother Teresa in India and studied Zen with Buddhists in Japan is showing surprising appeal. As the campaign enters mid-stretch, rank-and-file union members, independents, rainbow-coalition minorities and educated, maverick Democrats are giving the former two-term California Governor a chance to build on his victories in Colorado and Nevada and a virtual tie in Maine...
Friday: one can short of a 6-pack series, presented by Maverick Concerts: The Jesus Lizard with Gumball, Six Finger Satellite, Bewitched and Kudgel...
...those ideas are outmoded, and the anti-Harvard rhetoric he spouts has grown tiresome. Vellucci was a maverick, an Independent who supported rent control and other liberal causes and loved to be the swing vote. But he brings nothing to the council, which is controlled by progressives today. His patronage politics and lack of energy and vision he displayed during his two years on School Committee and during his campaign indicate that he should be retired along with Sullivan...
...assault. The Bush plan perhaps should be regarded as a clever White House effort to put its imprimatur on a popular rebellion that was already reshaping educational policy from the grass roots up. Local school bureaucracies are already under siege from a variety of forces -- innovative Governors, activist courts, maverick educators and aroused parents...