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...three-term Doolittle, a solid conservative, is an active member of the Agriculture Committee and steadfast ally of the Farm Bureau. As a member of the Resources Committee, he is a stubborn opponent of federally funded environmental-protection bills...
Recent suicide bombs in Israel bring Paine's words to life once again. The peace process and all the fundamental assumptions that accompanied it have been called into question. Even the steadfast, dovish soldiers of the Left are unsure of the future. The viscious, remorseless behavior of Hamas terrorists tries the souls of those of us who want to believe in the possibility of Middle East peace...
...good many of the Christian conservative voters in Iowa, despite the support for Bob Dole of the state's Christian Coalition leader. One day after Buchanan took second place there, it was plain he had the front runner spooked. In a speech to the New Hampshire legislature, Dole, as steadfast an example of Republican orthodoxy as the party has ever produced, was suddenly Woody Guthrie. "Corporate profits are setting records and so are corporate layoffs,'' he said. "The real average hourly wage is 5% lower than it was a decade...
...Betty Barker have been steadfast friends of Harvard for so long," said President Neil L. Rudenstine. "I am delighted that their names will always be associated with the great Union building...
...skepticism-spillover problem is potentially acute for Bill Clinton, who is struggling back into voter approval with the budget fight. But he has been steadfast in defense of the wife who has stuck by him through more than one embarrassment. Early last week, after New York Times columnist William Safire called Hillary a "congenital liar," White House spokesman Mike McCurry said the President wanted to punch Safire in the nose. At his press conference on Thursday, Clinton compared his wife with Eleanor Roosevelt, another activist First Lady who came under fire. "For many of the same reasons," he added, "from...