Word: seat
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...capacity arena boasts a ring of luxury boxes and lounges, open-air concourses replete with concessionaires, a swank, well-equipped press box and nary a bad seat among the bunch...
...been blamed for the death or disappearance of 3,400 suspected communists and leftists, not to mention the torture of thousands of others. With that legacy hanging over his head, Pinochet rammed through an array of constitutional measures that made him immune to prosecution, including a lifetime Senator's seat that he took amid widespread protest last March, when he retired as an army general. "The locks and bolts made him untouchable," says Christian Democratic Congressman Andres Palma. "And he believed they would accompany him wherever he went in the world...
...investigated by an independent counsel. Early this year he pledged to spend just $3.8 million on his re-election--$1 for every Wisconsin voter--and to turn away any Democratic Party soft money, which interest groups and corporations can donate in unlimited amounts. "I'd rather lose my Senate seat than play that game," he likes...
...committee. New York's CHARLES RANGEL moved to the Ways and Means Committee, where he's the ranking Democrat. Two others are in the Senate: majority leader TRENT LOTT (Nixon partisan, Clinton critic) and PAUL SARBANES (Nixon critic, Clinton ally). The fresh-faced WILLIAM COHEN won a Senate seat, published works of poetry and fiction, and is now Secretary of Defense. ELIZABETH HOLTZMAN lost two Senate races and served as New York City comptroller...
...signs of fading away. Environmentalists are fielding 120 candidates in 20 states and stand to be spoilers in two New Mexico congressional races. In Albuquerque the Greens' BOB ANDERSON pulled enough votes from Democrat PHIL MALOOF in a June special election to let Republican HEATHER WILSON win the seat. Now there's a rematch, and Anderson may ruin the Democrats' chances again--so much so that Maloof has adopted much of the Greens' platform, and House minority leader RICHARD GEPHARDT asked Anderson to drop out, a plea that was rejected. Meanwhile, in the Third District, TOM UDALL, son of STEWART...