Word: mikulski
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Angeles Bureau Chief Dan Goodgame found himself climbing up the sideboards of mud-spattered beet trucks while covering the campaign of Idaho Republican Steve Symms, who won a second Senate term. Bonnie Angelo, who heads the New York bureau, searched a small town in Maryland with Democrat Barbara Mikulski, who would later win her Senate bid, as she tried to find the hall where she was supposed to speak. In Sheyenne, N. Dak. (pop. 307), Chicago Bureau Chief Jack White found supporters of successful Senatorial Aspirant Kent Conrad so enthusiastic about having a representative of the national media in their...
...ball. Like the New Jersey Senator, however, he is a neoliberal Democrat, a Rhodes scholar and a victor in his first race for office. At 6 ft. 11 in., he is 6 in. taller than Bradley and a full 2 ft. taller than his Maryland colleague, Senator-elect Barbara Mikulski (a savvy point guard if there ever...
...FACES IN THE SENATE "THE GOOD MOUTH" "WE ELECTED A DEMOCRATIC WOMAN NAMED BARBARA AND SOMEBODY NAMED MIKULSKI, AND THE SENATE WON'T BE THE SAME FROM NOW ON!" THUS CROWED THE MARYLAND WINNER, A 4-FT. 11-IN. BUNDLE OF ENERGY WITH A VOICE LIKE A BALTIMORE HARBOR FOGHORN, ON ELECTION NIGHT. THE VICTORY CELEBRATION WAS INDEED HISTORIC: BARBARA MIKULSKI, 50, % THE GRANDDAUGHTER OF POLISH IMMIGRANTS, HAD SWEPT PAST REPUBLICAN LINDA CHAVEZ, 61% TO 39%, TO BECOME THE FIRST FEMALE DEMOCRAT...
...accuses Democratic Rival Bob Graham of accepting support from the Young Communist League. In Wisconsin, Democratic Challenger Ed Garvey was accused of hiring a private eye to snoop into Republican Senator Robert Kasten's affairs. Maryland Republican Linda Chavez, a mother of three, derides her opponent, Democratic Congresswoman Barbara Mikulski, who has never married, as "antimale" and a "San Francisco-style" liberal...
...classic strategy of populism, born a century ago. Though the movement has zigzagged through the political landscape, and though some conservatives now claim a share of its legacy, populism's core remains its opposition to assorted elites. In Maryland, for instance, the voting records of Representatives Barbara Mikulski and Michael Barnes are both strongly liberal. Mikulski, the shrill voice of blue-collar Baltimore, easily bested Barnes, the urbane, bloodless spokesman of upscale Montgomery County...