Word: rolodex
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...then there was Bill Clinton, who fused politics and pop culture more effusively than any president before him. Like a kid who got Warren Beatty?s Rolodex for Christmas, he turned D.C. into a Hollywood East and brought a People magazine ?Baby Boomer edition? quality to his presidency...
...Bush clan gathers every summer for fun and games in Kennebunkport, Maine, but this summer something special was up. The old man had invited everyone in his massive Rolodex to celebrate the Silver Fox's 75th birthday. It was all hush-hush, the old social secretaries and helpers and lickers and stampers, some of the old Bush gals and the hangers on, and of course folks like Jim Baker and his wife. They stayed all over the old fishing resort--at the point itself and at the Shawmut in town, and some bunked secretly with friends. And sure, they were...
...dealing with the Gulf crisis or the enlargement of NATO - was playing a poor hand to maximum advantage. Although the current foreign minister, Igor Ivanov, is a firm, erudite and self-assured Primakov prot?g?, he doesn't have his tutor's strategic vision and skill, his experience or his Rolodex. Primakov's presence, both on Putin's European tour and at the funeral of Syrian president Hafez Assad, suggests the president is eager to make use of his erstwhile rival's expertise in order to engage the U.S. in a diplomatic battle for influence in theaters as diverse as Europe...
...full-time job, but he did promise to lead the drive for dollars. At 9 a.m. on March 27, he and associate Peter O'Keefe sat around a small table in D.N.C. chairman Ed Rendell's office. With an alphabetical list of 150 names culled from McAuliffe's Rolodex, they focused on Clinton's biggest helpers of 1996. The first call went to Dan Abraham, chairman of Slim-Fast Foods Co. McAuliffe told him about the tribute and asked, "If the world blew up tomorrow, Danny, what can I put you down for?" Abraham promised to send a check...
...touch day to day, and they vacation together several times a year. In the intervals, Prouty finds that work is the best antidote for his loneliness, and India is the beneficiary. With one hand on the pulse of the country's tech industry and the other flipping through a Rolodex of global resources, Prouty is helping import the vibrancy of Silicon Valley to southern India...