Word: moynihanized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...DISCREET. Some tabloids drooled over Bordes as a high-class call girl (the tonier papers left it at "socialite") and hunted down her many eminent admirers, including Sunday Times Editor Andrew Neil (quickly dubbed "Randy Andy") and Observer Editor Donald Trelford ("Dirty Don"), as well as Sports Minister Colin Moynihan, who escorted Bordes to the Conservative Winter Ball. Tory M.P. David Shaw, it turned out, had been so taken with her talents that, with the help of fellow Tory M.P. Henry Bellingham, he hired Bordes as a researcher in the House...
...goes toward selling policies or administering claims, not for fixing cars or compensating the injured. Nearly all that wasted money could be saved. Virtually every disinterested party who looks at the system -- from the young law student Richard Nixon in 1936 to the considerably less conservative Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan of New York decades later -- concludes the same thing: the system stinks. It could be radically improved...
...submitted by two Democratic holdovers in the upper bureaucracy who were so skeptical of getting a hearing that they referred to it as the Christian Working Man's Anti-Communist National Defense Rivers and Harbors Act of 1969. But their handiwork caught the eye of another Democrat, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, who had come into the Nixon White House as a presidential assistant, and who blarneyed Nixon into endorsing the idea...
...kind of Senator Bush needs if his programs are to have any hope of passage. And unawed as he is by Bush, Johnston fairly reflects the mood of Congress. "Bush should consider the possibility that ((we will)) keep his promises for him," says New York Democrat Pat Moynihan, reportedly among those supporting Mitchell for majority leader. "And that would destroy his presidency...
Another factor working for the Democrats is the stature of its incumbent candidates. Some of the party's best-known leaders are up for re-election, including Majority Leader Robert C. Byrd (W.Va.), Edward M. Kennedy '54 (Ma.) and Daniel Patrick Moynihan (N.Y.). Other Democratic safe bets include Spark M. Matsunaga (Ha.), George Mitchell (Me.), Jim Sasser (Tenn.) and, of course, Lloyd Bentsen...