Word: patting
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Deputy chief of staff John Podesta assembled the team, including former Clinton Hill lobbyists Howard Paster and Pat Griffin, as well as Tommy Boggs, the king of Washington lobbyists. In regular contact with lawmakers and their top staffs, members of the President's shadow lobbying enterprise are in a good position to test Clinton's fortunes. Separately, businessman Terry McAuliffe, Clinton's close friend and principal fund raiser, is known to have phoned hundreds of Democratic financial supporters to rally support for the President. They, in turn, are calling in their support to Democratic lawmakers. And it would be hard...
Talk about an upset victory. Everyone--except perhaps Democratic incumbent Patrick Leahy--is upset that Tuttle won. Republican officials are shocked to find themselves saddled with a candidate who says of his opponent, "I like Pat. He's a smart man, and he's done a good job." Tuttle's wife Dottie refused to vote for Fred, and wishes this foolishness would stop. "I hope they have more sense than to vote for my husband," she snaps. And Tuttle says his bid against McMullen, who has lived in Vermont only about a year, was meant to be a protest...
...dilemma is made a bit too sharp and pat by Ethan's peace-loving intellectual heritage, but Schwartz stays close enough to his characters' thoughts to keep the debate authentic and personal, rather than calculated and abstract...
...convinced that deflation is as big a problem for the U.S. as inflation, and that means he can lower rates in order to ease the currency strain on Asia and Latin America." So now the secret's out about Tuesday's FOMC meeting -- maybe. The Fed can still stand pat, and if it does, all those Greenspan-induced gains could go right out the window...
...realize, a year or so after you graduate, that all these young kids putting out the paper have no idea who you are, but that Pat is good enough to remember you," Dorman said.A LEGEND: PATRICK R. SORRENTO places cartoons, left, processes film with ANNE C. KRENDL '98, above, and stares down Crimeds young and old, left...