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After working for a year for New York City Mayor John Lindsay, Panetta returned to California, practiced law and became a Democrat. He won a seat in Congress in 1976 and rose quickly, tangling with Tip O'Neill when he and a group of other Young Turks grew impatient with the speaker's stewardship of the chamber. Though he fell out of favor with O'Neill, Panetta fought back, eventually taking control of the House Budget Committee in 1989. One longtime Panetta advantage has been his wife Sylvia, who ran his district office in California as an unpaid aide while...
...different reactions were symptomatic of the moods in the two countries. Poland is undergoing a period of political bickering and some disenchantment following its emergence from communism, while the Baltic Republics are still enjoying a boom following their more recent release from decades of central economic planning. In a tip of his hat to the Baltic success, Clinton announced a U.S. fund that would invest in the small but growing economies. He made another crowd-pleasing promise to put up much of the funds needed to move out the lingering Russian troops. In Poland, he promised that the North Atlantic...
Reeves' unusual positions threatens to tip the balance on several key issues in Cambridge. The CCA has traditionally supported government outreach and controversial programs like rent control, while Independents oppose such measures...
...again going to pass up the opportunity to bash the council. (at least for the whole column). Not that I doubt the veracity of the various reports on their total and utter incompetence; the dirt that has found its way into the press is, I'm sure, just the tip of the duncecap...
...believer in the Tip O'Neill mottothat all politics is local," Rowe said. "It's abroadening responsibility in government relationsfor me. It's not simply federal relations, it'slocal, state and federal. That's a great appeal tome...