Word: mickey
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...budget aide. Secretary of Health and Human Services Donna Shalala interrupted with disparaging comments, Clinton with factual questions. The President then went around the room. Shalala bitterly attacked the bill; Housing Secretary Henry Cisneros, Labor Secretary Robert Reich and Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin also counseled a veto. Commerce Secretary Mickey Kantor, however, said, "I'm for [the bill] on the politics and on the merits." He remarked that as a legal-services attorney in the 1970s, he had found the welfare system to be fundamentally broken and in need of repair...
...Secretary of Commerce Mickey Kantor delivered a speech last night on "The Global Economy in the 21st Century," at the Institute of Politics' (IOP) ARCO forum...
...South tilted Republican and rescripted presidential politics. By the late 1980s, this coalition, wedded to old ideas, attack strategies and issues, was wearing out. If Michael Dukakis, a caricature of ineffective, low-blood-count Northeastern liberalism, had not allowed himself to be photographed in that tank hatch looking like Mickey Mouse, George Bush might well have lost...
...Social Security Administration employee who had heroically saved lives in Oklahoma City. Dean provoked thunderous bipartisan applause--and then G.O.P. consternation when Clinton noted that the Gingrich-inspired government shutdown had later locked Dean out of his office. It was Gore who forcefully advocated the quick appointment of Mickey Kantor as Commerce Secretary after Ron Brown's death; who persuaded Clinton to rediscover the virtues of being pro-environment; who twisted entertainment executives' arms until they agreed to a "voluntary" TV-violence rating system; who shepherded the huge telecommunications bill to completion. Gore, whose sister died of lung cancer...
...Fitzpatrick (John Mahoney) is a retired New York City fireman who has lost faith in God but doesn't believe that prevents him from remaining a good Catholic. His wife (whom we never see) is having an affair with the man at the hardware store. Their elder son Mickey (played by writer-director Edward Burns) is a cabbie who marries one of his fares (Maxine Bahns) 24 hours after she hails his hack. The younger, Francis (Mike McGlone), is a master of the Wall Street universe, but not of life beyond it. He claims to be too preoccupied to have...