Word: rolodex
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...outsider, it's a miniature version of Washington, where political connections, as much as money, are the coin of the realm," writes Marian Burros, also of The Times. Here's Clinton as Slick Willie, the smooth pol with a rolodex large enough to make any Institute of Politics hack salivate...
...them suffer from diseases that are rare or difficult to diagnose, which means that they were shuttled from specialist to specialist, leaving a trail of money and test results but no answers or cures. By banding together and sharing information, patients become informed consumers. Many groups have a Rolodex of scientists and physicians who can be called upon to educate a local doctor confronting his first case of a rare disease. Information campaigns help improve diagnosis, which in turn gives public health officials a more accurate sense of the impact that even rare diseases have...
...began as a campaign waged by Rolodex. Last December Glenda Greenwald, former publisher of Michigan Woman magazine, and a small band of Republican women hit the phones, asking people to join the first nationwide fund-raising network to support G.O.P. women candidates who favor the right to abortion. By March, her New York-based wish (Women in the Senate and the House) List had raised $180,000 and enlisted 250 members, each of whom pays dues of $100 a year and donates at least $100 to two candidates endorsed by the organization. "The only way we can help ourselves...
...Turner as CNN's third president in August 1990. Much of Johnson's impact at CNN comes from the contrast he provides to the man he replaced: Burt Reinhardt, a respected, budget-conscious but rather aloof news executive. Johnson, 50, is an affable Georgia native with a Rolodex full of political contacts, dating from his years as an aide to President Lyndon B. Johnson. He has taken a hands-on approach to CNN in more ways than one. During the gulf war he brought cookies to bleary-eyed staffers working on the weekend. When ABC signed up Mikhail Gorbachev...
Gorbachev would obviously prefer presiding over the largest country on earth to becoming the custodian of little more than a drafty fortress on the banks of the Moscow River. His friend Bush would rather have one phone number in his Rolodex than a dozen...