Word: southern
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...them would often leave the White House at 5:30 and play through sundown. "We've played the last hole in the dark many times," says Bowles, who is reported to be a far better player than the President. The two men have in common their Southern ambition and a childhood in a household with an alcoholic parent (Clinton's stepfather, Bowles' mother, long since recovered). But the pair are opposites in many ways. "I spent my whole life in the private sector, he in the public," observes Bowles. "Some of my greatest strengths are in organization and structure...
...tracks been so contested. The target: Conrail, the once tattered collection of government-owned freight lines that was created in 1976 and went public in 1987. CSX Corp. agreed to buy Conrail last month for more than $8 billion in cash and stock. Rival Norfolk Southern swiftly countered with a massive all-cash bid for Conrail of $10 billion, or $110 a share...
Wall Street isn't getting off at that station. "CSX and CRR, with the complicity of the Pennsylvania legislature, have effectively stacked the deck against an economically superior Norfolk Southern offer for Conrail," contends Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette analyst James M. Higgins. The contestants are headed for court...
Strategically, the House election was billed largely as a contest to see whether the Republicans could pick up enough of the 19 Southern districts thrown open by the retirement of Democratic Representatives to offset expected heavy losses among the 70 freshmen elected in 1994. That was not quite the way it worked out. In both groups, the number of seats shifting from one party to another was smaller than expected...
...campaign than his Democratic opponent while trying to stick the standard "liberal" label on him. But Cleland carefully distanced himself from President Clinton and followed his own counsel to "stay in the sensible center." That broad appeal, coupled with his heroic background, made Cleland unbeatable, even though Southern Democrats hadn't won an open Senate seat since...