Word: nixon
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...YORK--Commissioner Fay Vincent said yesterday he gave Otis Nixon an unprecedented second chance after a positive drug test because he was persuaded the test might be an error...
...Atlanta Braves outfielder was suspended Monday for 60 days after another test, six weeks later, also showed cocaine use. Baseball officials said they didn't act on the first one because Nixon had passed more than 200 tests since 1987 and was involved with his aftercare program and his church...
...Atlanta Constitution reported in yesterday's editions that Nixon was contacted at the San Francisco airport but would not comment in detail about the penalty...
...something that really hurts, but I have to catch my flight," Nixon told the newspaper. "Some-day I'll tell the whole story. Gotta...
...Alexander, 51, brings a degree of political acumen to his job that was never seen under predecessors Lauro Cavazos and William Bennett. He learned from masters, serving first as an aide to Tennessee Senator Howard Baker and then in the Nixon White House before emerging in his own right as a two-term Republican Governor (1979-87). This background gives him a big advantage when he travels to Capitol Hill, as he often does, to lobby for his program. He understands compromise. "I can work with a guy like that," says William Ford, the crusty House education committee chairman...