Word: texans
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...Texan Erle Nye seemed like a sharpshooter when his firm, Texas Utilities, won a bidding war for assets of the British power company the Energy Group in 1998. A respected veteran energy executive, CEO Nye anted up $7.6 billion to win the deal. Soon after, a cartoon in the British press depicted a Texas Utilities meter reader ringing a doorbell--dressed as a cowboy...
...standing with the president on national security. In fact, some Democratic candidates have gone to great lengths to compare themselves to Bush, like Ron Kirk, a Texas Democrat running for Senate, whose campaign machine has ceaselessly churned out press releases talking about Kirk’s affection for the Texan president. Likewise, Republicans have been distancing themselves from now-unpopular notions like privatizing social security. In these cases, however, candidates has been generally evasive over what they believe and have instead relied on arousing public suspicions over the true beliefs of his opponent...
...costly Common Agricultural Policy (cap), thus preserving lucrative subsidies for French farmers. In September he sent troops to Africa to prop up a threatened regime in France's former colony, Ivory Coast. These days, Chirac is riding the range with even more gusto than the Texan in the White House. The man does not lack confidence. Chirac wants France - and himself - to be seen as an alternative to American power. Like his hero Charles de Gaulle before him, Chirac is not afraid to stand up to the States, whether on Iraq, the Kyoto treaty, trade or defense. When he gets...
Talmadge, a native Texan, has been so cold in her Leverett Tower room that she has been sleeping with several layers, a cap, a heating blanket and a heating pad to stay warm...
...point out, however, that’s he no D.C. native. “I’ve actually lived in Dallas my whole life but just moved to D.C. four years ago for high school,” he explains. There’s a lot of Texan pride here. He points to an embroidered cushion on his armchair that proclaims, “American by birth, Southern by choice, Texan by the grace...