Word: steve
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...party. If all goes according to plan, Bob Dole should hobble Buchanan, the impetuous insurgent. But nothing so far has gone as planned, and party lawyers can imagine a scene like this: a fractured convention, with clumps of delegates nominally pledged each to Dole, Lamar Alexander, Pat Buchanan and Steve Forbes; more than half the delegates not legally bound to any candidate at all under various state rules; no clear sign of a nominee; the vice presidency up in the air; 20 or so Republican Governors pining for it; and open warfare between the centrists...
...rare point of agreement with activists, the nuclear industry also says regulations threaten to drive some plants out of business, but it argues that many NRC rules boost costs without enhancing safety. "The regulatory system hasn't kept pace with advances in technology," says Steve Unglesbee, a spokesman for the Nuclear Energy Institute, the industry's p.r. unit. "Industrywide, our safety record is improving. But NRC creates so many layers of regulation that every plant is virtually assured of being in noncompliance with something...
...they be run safely. He teamed up with the sharp-witted Hadley to aid and abet whistle blowers and sank his life savings into We the People before taking a dime in donations. Comley, says the NRC's Norton, "has been useful in bringing important issues to our attention. Steve can be a very intense guy. I don't think it's good for his health. But people who seem--not fanatical, but overly intense--help democracy work...
...first Republican renegade to cry "Wrong!" and charge was Steve Forbes. With his free-lunch, tax-cutting flat tax, he declared the balanced budget, the centerpiece of the Republican revolution, misguided and unnecessary. Then, no sooner had the Forbes mutiny been put down than Pat Buchanan declared a general insurrection. He too declared war on the party's central ideology--in the name not of supply-side theory but (the unkindest cut of all) of class warfare, the Democratic weapon of choice against Republicanism...
...STEVE MERRILL Popular Governor tried to do a Sununu, pulled out all stops for Dole-and was stopped...