Word: plum
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...meeting with a call to action: having halted a twenty-year slide in membership, the union is now poised to sink fully one-third of its $60 million budget into a national organizing drive. Before leaving town, Gephardt took the opportunity to offer the union still another small plum, knocking NAFTA at a news conference, and telling reporters that it "was not working properly" and "needed to be improved." While Gephardt is decidedly an underdog in the early running for 2000, the AFL-CIO may view him as a way to keep Gore and Clinton off-balance as it continues...
...meeting with a call to action: having halted a twenty-year slide in membership, the union is now poised to sink fully one-third of its $60 million budget into a national organizing drive. Before leaving town, Gephardt took the opportunity to offer the union still another small plum, knocking NAFTA at a news conference, and telling reporters that it "was not working properly" and "needed to be improved." While Gephardt is decidedly an underdog in the early running for 2000, the AFL-CIO may view him as a way to keep Gore and Clinton off-balance as it continues...
BORN: Jan. 10, 1937, Upper Darby, Pa. EDUCATION: Illinois State U, 1954-55; Chicago City College, A.A., 1965; Northwestern U, Ph.D., 1968; Loyola U, M.A., 1970, Ph.D., 1975 FAMILY: Husband, Frederik Pohl; two children, four stepchildren RELIGION: Protestant MILITARY: None OCCUPATION: Professor POLITICAL CAREER: None ADDRESS: 2150 Plum Grove Road, Rolling Meadows...
...when, in 1994, he got an endorsement from the normally Democratic AFL-CIO. But this year, despite his support for the minimum-wage hike and opposition to NAFTA, labor is backing opponent Francis Pordum. Still, Quinn won $40 million for the Buffalo waterfront this year, a surefire election plum, and has sponsored legislation to create a clear federal snow-emergency plan, a hot issue in the land of the "lake effect...
Tennessee was one of the plum prizes of the Republican revolution--in 1994 the Volunteer State, with a Democratic tradition dating back to Reconstruction, elected two Republican Senators and shifted its House delegation from 6-to-3 Democratic to 5-to-4 Republican. Two retirees, Jamie Quillen (R) and Harold Ford (D) will probably not affect the balance this year. But Democrats are hoping tradition will reassert itself--especially in the Vice President's state--and allow them to take the state of the Grand Ole Opry away from the Grand Old Party...