Word: newt
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...With the legislation still in committee and facing floor votes in both houses, there is still plenty of time for compromise. Says Dickerson, "This is simply the first round of the dance, and it's a good opportunity for Newt Gingrich to show GOP conservatives that he's prepared to fight for their issues." This is, after all, an election year...
...Lott Monday, who backed off his weekend criticism of Kenneth Starr to tell reporters that the independent counsel "is doing a great job under very difficult circumstances." Lott's weekend call for Starr to accelerate the long-running Whitewater investigation brought a quick "What were you thinking?" conversation with Newt Gingrich -- and today's charge that the President is stonewalling and trying to smear Starr's reputation. Later, Arlen Specter and Fred Thompson hit the Sunday talk shows to say that Starr should be given all the time he needed...
...problem with Republicans these days isn't so much the lack of an agenda; it's the shortfall of charismatic leaders. Last week, just as NEWT GINGRICH was signaling that he'll step down in mid-1999 to run for President, the party's rising star, BILL PAXON, announced that he was quitting electoral politics entirely. The move came as a shock both to his admirers and detractors, of which there were many, because of his efforts to overthrow Gingrich last year...
...early 1995, Newt Gingrich casually suggested giving tax credits to poor families to buy laptop computers but soon backpedaled from the proposal and called it "a nutty idea." In this low-income Manhattan neighborhood, the idea of 11-year-olds toting $1,500 laptops to school is so nutty that the school district plans to expand its laptop program from Mott Hall's 30 sixth-graders to more than 200 students in the next month. Not long ago, laptop computers were a luxury even administrators couldn't afford; now the district wants to make them as common as spiral notebooks...
...problem with Republicans these days isn't so much the lack of an agenda; it's the shortfall of charismatic leaders. Last week, just as Newt Gingrich was signaling that he'll step down in mid-1999 to run for president, the party's rising star, Bill Paxon, announced that he was quitting electoral politics entirely. The move came as a shock to both his admirers and his detractors, of which there were many, because of his efforts to overthrow Gingrich last year...