Word: stan
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White House officials attempted to ensure that the unease caused by the Democrats' Election Day losses did not hurt the North American Free Trade Agreement. Pollster Stan Greenberg was sent to Capitol Hill to convince Democrats that supporting NAFTA would not displease voters. In the meantime, Vice President Al Gore surprisingly challenged Ross Perot, NAFTA's fiercest opponent, to a debate over its merits, and Perot, unsurprisingly, accepted...
According to Stan Greenberg, the White House pollster, Americans believe the prospect for change is improving now that Clinton has turned his attention to such middle-of-the-road concerns as health care, free trade and "reinventing" government. A day after his health-care speech, Clinton flew to Florida for a Nightline-televised national town meeting on health care and for more than two hours demonstrated his formidable grasp of the problem. "It has been a long time since the public has seen him wrestle with the problems of everyday working Americans," said a White House official. "They didn...
...albertosaurs, sharp-toothed scavengers about half T. rex's size, fed on the carcass, leaving a few of their teeth behind. Within months a river overflowed its banks and swept the bones away, eventually covering them with a three-foot $ layer of silt, which preserved them for eternity--and Stan Sacrison...
...does, Stan, but the paleontologist isn't very realistic...
...Congress begins considering Clinton's health-reform legislation this week. The political war reflects the public's ambivalence: a majority of Americans favor a woman's right to choose but wish she would elect to have the baby. "Most view abortion as a privacy matter," explains White House pollster Stan Greenberg. "But most abhor the act and are opposed to using tax dollars for abortions for those who can't pay for them...