Word: tennant
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Massachusetts Republicans have jumped on the Frank affair, and the latest poll shows that only 45% of the Congressman's constituents still look on him favorably -- a blow but not necessarily a defeat, since 61% want him to run for office again next year. Alexander Tennant, Massachusetts G.O.P. state committee director, says the political issue is "not Barney Frank's sex life but whether the Congressman broke the law." Gobie says he did, by abusing congressional immunity to avoid paying Gobie's parking tickets, a charge Frank denies...
...February of 1987, the Massachusetts Republican Party formulated a detailed rebuilding plan, according to Alexander Tennant '74, the director of the Massachusetts Republican Party. The main goal was to build a solid financial base. After the 1986 election debacle, the GOP faced a $140,000 deficit. This year alone, in cooperation with Bush's Victory '88 fundraising campaign, they have raised $1.5 million...
...first time in 15 years, Tennant says, the Republicans are able to contest half of the seats in the predominantly Democratic state senate, and 10 more candidates are running for the state House of Representatives than in 1986. Perhaps more significantly, the Republican Party has changed its image from stodgy, Yankee patricians to younger, tougher entrepreneurs. The average age of newly elected members of the Republican State Committee...
...disputed, in part because there are few large-scale studies. Athletes take the steroids in doses much larger than those used for therapeutic purposes, and doctors have been reluctant to conduct research that would in any way condone a practice they consider unhealthy. Athletes have fewer doubts. Dr. Forest Tennant, a California researcher, estimated in the New England Journal of Medicine that "as many as 1 million athletes" in the U.S. alone are using anabolic steroids. Sprinters like Johnson, who rely on large muscles for bursts of power, are believed to be turning more and more to steroids. In football...
...maintain a personal fiefdom, with separate corporate staffs, public relations departments and financial advisers. Then, last May, heavy trading in Moet Vuitton shares on the Paris Bourse signaled that the company would be vulnerable to a takeover attempt. Chevalier responded to the threat by calling on a friend, Anthony Tennant, president of Guinness PLC, the powerful British drinks group that markets Moet-Hennessy brands around the globe. Guinness was asked to take a 20% stake in Moet Vuitton as anti-takeover insurance. Racamier opposed the alliance, fearing that it would jeopardize Vuitton's independence. "I had no objections to Guinness...