Word: randolphs
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...What difference does a mother make? Rearrange a few biographies. Suppose Nixon had been raised by a mother more along the lines of, say, Winston Churchill's - Jennie Randolph, no saint but a fairly negligent absentee? Would that have made Nixon Churchillian? Suppose, at the other extreme, that Nixon had been dealt the hand (a straight flush) of little Franklin Roosevelt. Suppose Nixon had grown up - not in his bleakly struggling Whittier, California, with the gas station and the saint and the angry, punitive Dad - but as a darling of the Hudson River gentry, doted upon as an only child...
...Last March, for example, the Air Force floated a plan to encourage private carriers to buy a Boeing transport plane. The bottom line, however, is that Airbus gets more government help, which often translates into deeper discounts for its customers. "We would like the playing field more even," says Randolph Baseler, a vice president of marketing at Boeing. "But we're focused on figuring out how to produce airplanes for less...
...think there is a politician among us who would fit John Randolph of Roanoke's classic description of Henry Clay?: "A being so brilliant yet so corrupt, which, like a rotten mackerel by moonlight, shines and stinks...
...Randolph's daughter, Joanne, 14, is an eighth-grader at the Tobin School...
...When you come to the United States, you have to focus on what you want," Randolph says. "The opportunity is there, you have to grab what you want...