Word: reno
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...ground laboriously covered by the past two Congresses. But the Democratic Party's dubious fund-raising practices are fertile territory for someone whose zeal for campaign-finance reform has not endeared him to his colleagues. Pressure for a full-blown congressional investigation intensified last week when Attorney General Janet Reno rejected requests for an independent counsel. And Thompson has suggested that there still may be questions worth raising about how the White House handled the firing of its travel office or how it gathered FBI files on prominent Republicans. With so many possible transgressions for him to probe, Thompson...
MICHAEL DERMODY, 46; RENO, NEVADA; real estate developer...
Dermody founded the Children's Cabinet in 1985 to coordinate local agencies serving the needs of children in the Reno area. It now helps 12,000 people annually. "This is like a control tower for children's services," Dermody says. "Our concept enables children and families to get help faster and more efficiently." The model is being studied by other communities in Nevada, as well as in North Carolina and Colorado...
...problem with Reno, says a White House official, is that for her, "consultation with the White House is an afterthought." Her critics there claim that she acts as if she's on the Supreme Court, not an appointed official running an important agency for the President. Reno's decision to seek no fewer than four independent counsels to probe Administration scandals--from allegations regarding Housing and Urban Development Secretary Henry Cisneros to Whitewater charges--has exacerbated tensions with the White House. "They don't know what she's going to do," says a Reno aide...
...with the New York Times Thursday, Clinton admitted he had policy discussions with James Riady, the wealthy Indonesian businessman whose family's company once employed Huang and has contributed large sums to the D.N.C. It is revelations like these that would make it increasingly awkward for Clinton to throw Reno, Washington's current referee, out of the game...