Word: pitney
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Bush's war chest carries staggering implications for those other would-be Presidents who have been begging donors for money just to keep their campaign alive. "This is the political equivalent of bombing the supply lines," says John J. Pitney Jr., a political-science professor at Claremont McKenna College. "There's only so much political money out there, and every dollar that goes to [Bush] is a dollar that doesn't go anywhere else." Bush's money advantage is so great that his campaign advisers believe the only real threat they face comes from Steve Forbes, the self-financed tycoon...
...such associations, Bacharach, 69, is currently enjoying greater popularity than at any other time since his heyday in the 1960s and early '70s, when, working against the rock grain, he was responsible for dozens of Top 40 hits, including surprisingly nuanced adult-oriented love songs for performers like Gene Pitney, Dusty Springfield and, his greatest vessel of all, Dionne Warwick. The current renaissance--Bacharach's last big hit was 1985's That's What Friends Are For--began a few years ago, with the explosion of interest in so-called lounge music, especially in Britain, where a two-disc...
...part they would give a kid. McCarter, he says, became his family. He had lost the security of his real family: his parents divorced when he was three and his brother Ben a year younger. His father is the poet and literary scholar Franklin (F.D.) Reeve. His mother Barbara Pitney Lamb remarried, a stockbroker, Tristan Johnson, who was a kind and generous stepfather to Reeve and had four children from a previous marriage. Then the Johnsons had two children of their own. F.D. Reeve also remarried, adding three more children. In the separate civilizations of the burgeoning new families...
...hire special gumshoes to unearth them instead. In fact, as the 1996 presidential race gets under way, investigating the boss before an opponent does it for you has become as integral a part of fledgling campaigns as fund raising and free media are. "It's essential," said Jack Pitney, a government professor at Claremont McKenna College. "You really need to see where the other side is going to come at you." Done right, counter-oppo (short for counter-opposition research, as the strategy is called) isn't defense at all. It's good offense...
...several grudges against Clinton's attempts to run the country. Of course, it's unlikely that the Grand American Trapshoot Tournament would invite Clinton in the first place. "We need someone like George Patton for President. That'll cut crime," said Bill Dirr, 69, a retired service manager with Pitney Bowes. Jim Holian, 55, a gunstock manufacturer, grumbled that "instead of paying for kids to play basketball at 2 a.m., we should be building more prisons." Friends nodded furiously as Holian lambasted Clinton over the din of 500 shooters standing in a row 1.5 miles long and blasting away, part...