Word: naming
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...also capped a string of successes that required knocking heads in Sacramento and left both Democrats and Republicans crying in the aisles, wondering what happened to the mousy pencil sharpener who was long ridiculed for having the perfect first name and a series of those anonymous government jobs like lieutenant governor and controller, which are somewhat like assistant manager at the K Mart. "It was 'My way or the highway,'" says a Democratic legislator who had run-ins with Davis early on and found out that the buttoned-up, innocuous-looking Davis could cuss like a sailor. "Sharks are gray...
Davis' staff members develop tics when you suggest their boss is Clinton, the triangulator, but without the action pants. They'd rather throw Tony Blair's name on the table for the way Blair moved England's Labour Party to the center. Even the Wall Street Journal made that comparison last month, holding its nose and flattering the Democratic Governor in the reluctant, quivering tone one might use to proclaim that proctological exams, while unpleasant, can be a good thing...
...told, Knafel poured more than $26 million into the campaign, including $20 million for the center bearing his name that will study government and international issues...
...impeccably dressed Saint Louis native, whose name adorns numerous buildings at Harvard including Loeb House, the home of the University's governing boards, died nearly three years ago at the age of 94, leaving Harvard officials searching for words...
...even done comedy before and Adam Sandler was in the show because he went to NYU with me, and when we were rehearsing we did this improv exercise called "through the door." You walk through this door and you make up a character, and I just went, "Hi, my name is Mary Katherine Gallagher." I just kept shaking everyone's hand and that's how it all started...