Word: peanuts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fashioned constituent service. "People know they can call me and get results," he says. Lujan has assigned seven of his 13 congressional staff members to chase down tardy Social Security checks and disentangle Government red tape. On the campaign trail, fueled by a breakfast of graham crackers and peanut butter, Lujan totes a briefcase crammed with "casework forms," on which he records complaints from constituents. He couples such efforts with well-aimed personal touches: birthday cards, sympathy notes and welcoming letters to district newcomers...
...outsider." I was not part of the Wall Street business Establishment, the Washington political Establishment or the Hollywood entertainment Establishment. I was just not part of the Establishment in any way. I was a Southern peanut farmer populist type. That was fine with...
...serious trouble. In the first ten months of the current fiscal year, there were nearly 7,000 farm failures. Even many secure and usually prosperous farmers are feeling the pinch. "You've heard farmers bitching all your life," says Chappel Sides, 53, a cotton, soybean and peanut farmer near Coffeeville, Miss. "But when an above-average farmer makes an above-average crop and loses a pile of money, you know something's wrong. We're just right on the verge of a sure-enough tragedy...
Running a high-energy campaign fueled by peanut butter sandwiches and a concoction of fruit juices and protein powder, Dayton last week rolled over a lethargic comeback bid by former Senator Eugene J. McCarthy, 66, en route to the Democratic nomination. Joked McCarthy: "I'm not going to ask for a recount." Durenberger, meanwhile, faced only token opposition in the Republican primary but also campaigned with tireless zest...
...life is filled with pomp and ceremony, but George Bush still seeks pleasure and meaning in the little things. He remembers vividly a late snowstorm in Maine when newly arrived robins crowded one another for peanut-butter spread on a shingle. He was just as fascinated last week when his cocker spaniel C. Fred treed a raccoon outside the Bush home on Observatory Hill in Washington. Bush and his wife Barbara often stroll in the evenings around the stately old house that is now established as the Vice President's residence...