Word: offenders
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...stalwart conservative, who not only commended the President but also indicated that the Fed would cooperate by holding down interest rates to soften the bite of higher taxes. But the first barrage of phone calls to Congress was highly negative, and there is something in the plan to offend almost every interest employing a lobbyist with an in at a particular congressional committee. Budget Director Leon Panetta told the Washington Post that chances of congressional passage are only fifty-fifty. (See cover stories, beginning on page...
These and other reforms that Clinton has embraced include a number of good ideas that were also tepidly endorsed by President Bush and many other people. Most of them have never been carried out because they would offend one or more powerful interest groups, including patients, doctors, insurers and drug companies. To get any program in place, Clinton will have to use up some of his political capital...
...rank-and-file GOP members owe Baker any loyalty. Baker is closely and perhaps irredeemably tied to Bush, hardly the most popular man in prominent Republican circles these days. His fuzzy stand on abortion and lack of any clear ideology offend the party's more partisan members. Besides, many moderate Republicans are so busy counting down the days until Jack F. Kemp's Presidential Inauguration to take Baker very seriously...
...really try to encourage that. You know, the trappings and all that stuff I think is bogus and gets in the way of honest communication. If they want me to be a successful President, they've got to tell me what they think. It doesn't offend me when people disagree with...
...warned by his barristers in England that the novel was certain to offend several people, including Mikhail Gorbachev, Queen Elizabeth, Frank Sinatra and Nancy Reagan. Barnes is perhaps the only novelist writing today who could plausibly insert a reference to the torrid geriatric sex, in which the last two allegedly indulged, in a novel about post-communist Eastern Europe...