Word: phil
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...PHIL RIZZUTO...
...debate on Senate Democrats' health care proposal began in earnest with harsh partisan sniping on both sides. Sen. Phil Gramm (R-Texas) invoked the threat of a filibuster, calling the bill floated by Sen. George Mitchell (D-Maine) "anathema to everything I believe is right for America." This prompted Hillary Rodham Clinton to call Gramm a political opportunist "ranting and raving about socialized medicine." The bill calls for employer mandates as a backup measure and aims to cover 95 percent of the population. No vote is expected before next Wednesday...
...Price's response, in which she characterized a negotiated termination settlement for an employee forced to take early retirement as a "retirement plan" was, in my opinion, disingenuous. Prior to my suggesting the 10-year payout plan, I had discussed with Phil Lima of the Benefits Administration the procedure followed in arriving at termination settlements. I specifically asked if multi-year payouts were permissible. His reply was that "FAS could strike any deal it wanted" and he went on to point out that negotiated settlements do not involve the use of restricted pension funds...
...debate about who does and doesn't deserve to be there. "The Hall of Fame," he writes, "has never really thought through the issue of how to identify the most worthy Hall of Famers." His evidence: comparison of players' records and eyewitness testimony. Exhibit A: Yankee shortstop Phil Rizzuto, whose exclusion from the Hall stoked a 30-year ruckus...
...they held was on loan from the fans who had invested so much of themselves in it. This vision is partly fantasy -- the sport excluded blacks and kept even its top stars in indentured servitude -- but to a fan, soft-focus reverie can be as real and pungent as Phil Rizzuto's laugh...