Word: tomming
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Problem Solving Day seemed to do more to boost the morale of the agency than that of the taxpayers. But if the result is a friendlier, less hostile IRS, it might be worth it. Tom Quigley, an IRS public-affairs officer, showed up at the Manhattan office with an IRS flag he had specially made for the occasion. "Actually, I made two and one was absconded--maybe to burn," he said. And then, remembering the spirit of the day, he added quickly, "Though it might look nice in a college dorm." It's not quite the adrenaline rush the Revenue...
...Thomas Capano, the father of four daughters who separated from his wife Kay in 1995, is an unlikely murder suspect. A former deputy attorney general and legal counsel to ex-Governor Michael Castle, he was most recently employed at a prominent law firm as head of its bond department. "Tom was very much the consummate inside guy," says Charlie Butler, also a former deputy attorney general. "He was always fixing things. He spent a long time making Castle look good...
...until a search of Fahey's apartment uncovered letters from Capano, as well as a diary chronicling their ups and downs, that their affair was out in the open. In one of her last diary entries, on April 7, 1996, Fahey wrote, "I have finally brought closure to Tom Capano. What a controlling, manipulative, insecure, jealous maniac...
...Washington woes. And he is attacking the issue the way he storms into any battle he's losing: identify the problem, open his wallet, and buy a solution. In this case, that means pricey Beltway sluggers like former Reagan imagemaker Mike Deaver; Congressman-cum-fixer Vin Weber; and Tom Downey, former New York Democratic Congressman and close personal friend of Al ("Year 2000") Gore...
Yolanda and Ted Sr., an auto mechanic, had their two other sons to raise: Tom, who became a teacher and track and football coach at Lyndhurst High, and Terry, a former Milwaukee Brewer minor leaguer who is now an accountant. But the loss of Teddy took so much out of them. "People say it gets better over time," says Yolanda, "but it only gets worse. My husband stopped going to church, and for years he refused to go with me to Teddy's gravesite. He bought all of Teddy's game films for $1,200 but then couldn't bear...