Word: warrior
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...indignation did not move his tormentors. "He's clearly had a meltdown out there," said a top Dole road warrior, Nelson Warfield, the candidate's press secretary. "I mean, he spent millions on negative ads, and now he's upset that there are phone banks working against him?" Actually, it's important in war to know your enemies, and in this case Forbes may have missed the point. Every politician with a pulse lashes out at "the culture of Washington." Forbes was under fire last week because his insurgent campaign was slicing apart the G.O.P., and the party elders, activists...
...warrior and a big softie. At Ronald Reagan's 85th birthday party, Colin Powell heard the orchestra strike up the Reagans' favorite song, the Gershwins' Our Love Is Here to Stay, and sang it for Nancy. "Rich baritone," said bandleader Murray Korda...
...Forbes, the novelty of campaigning has worn off. Repetition is all. These days he doesn't give interviews; he endures them. A few months ago, he was the happy warrior on the trail; now he's a grim one, the flat-tax Terminator who repeats his lines by rote and marches relentlessly from event to event. While he has proved he has the fortitude for the race, some of the twinkle has gone out from behind those thick glasses...
Ready for anything, Road Warrior Part IX is part of the appeal, even if all you're heading for is the parking garage under the office building where you work. Riding high feels good. TV commercial actress Lonni Partridge of Manhattan Beach, California, traded her Mercedes sedan for a leased GMC Yukon last week. Her nine-year-old son and his baseball buddies fit better in it. But the high driving position makes Partridge feel more secure: "You don't have all the creeps in vans looking down at you." She feels physically more secure too: "When I drive...
...DEFENDING HER AGENCY AGAINST G.O.P. budget cutters, Energy Secretary Hazel O'Leary has been an effective warrior. Defending her reputation, however, is becoming problematic. Her congressional critics, who plan to hold another round of hearings next month, may well discover new items to view with alarm. An investigation by the General Accounting Office has found that $255,000 worth of the expenses that O'Leary's delegations billed for trips to India and South Africa have no receipts or records to justify how the money was spent. Energy officials are searching for the records and tightening up accounting procedures. Critics...