Word: strangerness
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...stranger to fundraising, Bush could raise millions for Yale and solve a lot of the budgetary problems that marked Benno C. Schmidt's tenure in New Haven. Maybe Bush could convince HUD Secretary Jack F. Kemp to stay on as a Yale housing maven. He could be the chief superintendent of the dormitories while he waits for 1996. His enterprise zones might do wonders for that garden spot known as New Haven...
Revell is no stranger to controversy. In 1981, after reportedly failing a polygraph test, he was censured for leaking confidential FBI data to an Oklahoma journalist. Yet he still managed to rise to the post of FBI associate deputy director for investigation. In the 1980s, Revell came under scrutiny after he received calls from Oliver North, who was seeking to sidetrack federal probes that threatened to reveal the Iran-contra mess. But no proof surfaced that Revell meddled in the cases. Then, in 1988, Revell acknowledged in a Senate hearing that the FBI had been misled by an undercover informer...
Roger D. Fisher '43 is no stranger to negotiations...
...next Democrat and Southerner to assume the presidency, Jimmy Carter, was no stranger to the gumby effect either. He bent in many directions, despite his image today as a man of unparalleled principle...
...sort of someone with a dual personality," Kincaid says. The American side is used to privilege, accustomed to taking more than her share of the world's wealth. The Antiguan side is a native of a third world country, no stranger to life without the simplest necessities...