Word: planes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...avoid the shutdown," Gingrich said. "Every president we had ever flown with had us up front. Every president we had every flown with had talked to us at length." To add insult to injury, the House Speaker and Majority Leader were eventually herded out through the plane's rear exit. "You just wonder where is their sense of manners, where is their sense of courtesy," Gingrich fumed. "Was it just a sign of utter incompetence or lack of consideration, or was it a deliberate strategy of insult? I don't know which...
...Black, Phil Gramm's general chairman. "But they're panicked and they're overreacting to a lot of things." A peek inside the vast, well-oiled Dole operation shows signs of fear and frustration. Campaign sources say that Dole booted his top field organizer, Jill Hanson, off his campaign plane and narrowed her portfolio in the wake of the disastrous tie with Phil Gramm last August in the Iowa straw poll--a phony event that became news only when Dole didn't win. In addition, to boost his standing in Iowa and Florida, last week Dole finally deployed...
...complain that Deutch pays too much attention to how operations will play on Capitol Hill. Gregarious and backslapping, Deutch can also be a ruthlessly tough manager and highly status conscious. He recently angered seven Senators planning a fact-finding trip to Bosnia by refusing to let them use a plane he had reserved from the Pentagon for a later trip, even though the Pentagon was able to find him an identical substitute. When one of Washington's hot restaurants, the Palm, was slow to put up Deutch's caricature among more than a thousand portraits of the city's political...
Woody Harrelson, boarding a plane on Martha's Vineyard following the Oct. 7 wedding of Ted Danson and Mary Steenburgen, went ballistic when a cameraman ignored his request that only he, and not his young daughter, be photographed. A tape of the incident appeared on Hard Copy...
...Skirts" (directed by Jose Zayas, produced by Rivks Levine) opens with Phyllis Hogan (Sarah Burt-Kinderman) and her 11-year-old son Bishop (Ryan McCarthy) marooned on a desert island, the only survivors of a plane crash. Through flashbacks, we learn that Phyllis was on her way to Italy for a last attempt at reconciliation with her philandering husband, Howard Hogan (Jed Willard), when the plane went down...