Word: maverickly
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...spring, he was given so little chance that the pragmatic PACs shunned him. Metzenbaum's $3 million campaign fund, on the other hand, included $350,000 in PAC money by the end of the summer, mainly from unions. But last month, while Metzenbaum was in Washington conducting a maverick crusade against special-interest bills, Pfeifer began showing strength in the polls. Suddenly PAC money started flowing to the challenger. Says a Pfeifer aide: "More than anything else, a poll will speak to the PAC community. They're like a business trying to invest." One-third of Pfeifer...
...speech after speech, at fair after fair and parade after parade, Republican Senator Lowell Weicker stresses his maverick ways. NOBODY'S MAN BUT YOURS his billboards proclaim. But that is just the problem, retorts his rival, four-term Democratic Congressman Toby Moffett: "Nobody's man is part of nobody's plan." Weicker is so independent, suggests Moffett, that he is a political hermit devoid of effectiveness...
...sixth largest media company (reported 1981 sales: $1.4 billion), it specializes in small, mostly monopoly markets. Of its 88 dailies, only three, including morning-evening combinations, have weekday circulations above 150,000. Some critics contend that the new paper is a personal bid for recognition by the driven maverick Neuharth; they find evidence even in the office suites of USA Today, which are decorated in black, white and gray, the only colors Neuharth wears in public. Says one Gannett insider: "It's Al's ego trip." Responds Neuharth: "The decision was not glandular, it was aided by research...
Currently in the pipeline to Israel is about $1.5 billion in assorted hardware, including eleven new F-15s, 800 more M113 personnel carriers, 200 self-propelled howitzers, 200 improved Hawk antiaircraft missiles and some 1,000 Maverick and Sidewinder missiles. Overall, military aid to Israel this fiscal year is expected to total $1.4 billion. Of that amount, $850 million will be in loans. Congress is considering the Administration's request that Israel be given $1.7 billion in military aid for fiscal 1983, $1.2 billion of it in loans...
What environments shaped Mumford? As he tells it, a procession of boyhood New York apartments so dark and cluttered, in the late Victorian style, that he acquired an early appreciation of the austere forms of 20th century architecture. With affectionate detail he recalls his maverick mother, a shabby-genteel domestic in the house of a New York lawyer, who met the man's nephew and bore young Lewis out of wedlock. The boy's German grandfather, a retired headwaiter at Delmonico's, became the dominant figure of Mumford's early years, taking him on long walks...