Word: toweritis
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Island. It boasts six toilets with international motifs, including the Rose of Versailles, which features a white porcelain bowl decorated with pink roses and exuding the flower's fragrance, and the Fin de Siecle in Vienna, which offers a rococo bowl and whiffs of lavender. The builders, the Golden Tower Corp., hope to turn a profit on the $4 million project in about four years. So far, up to 2,000 visitors a day have flooded...
...Senate probes new allegations about John Tower's drinking and sex life that could delay his confirmation. -- Flying solo on his first diplomatic mission, Dan Quayle voices support for human rights in El Salvador. -- Feeling voters' heat, Speaker Jim Wright changes strategy on congressional pay hikes. -- Had October's missiles flown, John Kennedy would have stayed home...
...John Tower, Secretary of Defense-designate, is a full-fledged member of the Capitol Hill old boys' network. Before retiring from Congress after the 1986 election, he put in four terms as a Republican Senator from Texas. For six years he served as chairman of the Armed Services Committee, the panel now judging his fitness to run the Pentagon. His old friends in the upper chamber are eager to confirm his appointment, either because of personal regard or because it would further a kind of quasi alliance between Congress and the Bush Administration that both need for their own purposes...
...dares ram through a confirmation unless Tower, 63, can decisively dispel rumors of drinking and womanizing that have dogged him for years. Last week those charges arose at the next-to-last moment to haunt him yet again. The Armed Services Committee had scheduled a vote for Thursday that looked certain to be affirmative and to pave the way for confirmation by the full Senate. That morning, however, Committee Chairman Sam Nunn of Georgia and ranking Republican John Warner of Virginia agreed to put off the vote indefinitely. Their explanation: new allegations serious enough to demand a check...
Nunn and Warner would not disclose the charges. But after Paul Weyrich, a former Senate staffer, became the first committee witness to talk publicly about Tower's alleged drinking and sexual escapades, the committee was inundated with calls reporting "sightings" of Tower either in a less than sober state or with women, both before and after the FBI conducted a supposedly thorough background check in January. (It was learned last week that the FBI actually completed only the first part of a three-part investigation before Bush sent Tower's name to the Senate.) Committee insiders say many callers were...