Word: politico
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...staff members as they work all night at his house on an M.I.T. graduation speech, surrounded by note cards and bits of paper stuck on easels. "For him it's like golf. He loves it!" concludes an aide. But beneath this wonkish exterior, the President has found a smart politico. After the TWA 800 crash, Clinton named Gore head of a task force on airline safety--a delicate job, since the report he produces must be rigorous without implying that the President flubbed the issue earlier. Gore is also the favorite mouthpiece for Clinton's rapid-response team, "prebutting...
Even rank-and-file Reformers are snubbing Perot. Some think his decision to accept nearly $30 million in taxpayers' money is a raid on the very Treasury he complains is already empty. Others worry that he is attracting types like left-fringe politico Lenora Fulani. Officials of New York's Independence Party are threatening to drop Perot from their ticket because of what they see as massive irregularities in the nomination process. Nearly a third of their 38,000 members didn't receive ballots as promised, while nonmembers got ballots simply by phoning Reform headquarters and asking for them...
...face of this tangle of politico-cultural emotions, concessions had to be made. The 11th century painting often considered to be the greatest masterpiece of Northern Sung dynasty landscape, Fan K'uan's Travelers Amid Streams and Mountains, stayed in Taipei, as did the hardly less important scroll by Kuo Hsi, Early Spring, 1072, which graces the catalog's cover. Moreover, there are time limits within the show itself. Its paintings and calligraphies--because of their age and fragility--have to be removed and replaced periodically by others of similar quality and era during the show...
What if similar statements were made by a politico of another country? "I say given quite plainly--when I come to power, there will be a dictatorship!" Sound absurd? People in the Kremlin aren't laughing. Enter the world of Vladimir Zhirinovsky, self-appointed savior of the former Soviet republic...
Victorious G.O.P. politico inexplicably volunteers payoff scandal details...