Word: wheeler
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...story may impress Vellucci's supporters with the extent of his political connections, but to many current observers it smacks of a style of political wheeler-dealing that was supposed to have vanished decades ago. When the Boston Phoenix ran the story in Vellucci's own words last June, it only gave credence to the impression some people had of the mayor: that despite his self-proclaimed independent label, Vellucci is a politician born and bred in the ways of the precinct clubhouse. Vellucci, of course, denies the assertion. "I was given that job, sure, but I had to qualify...
...voted in last April's mayoral election in Ann Arbor. Van Hattum was among 20 men and wom en who, unknown to them, lived just outside city limits and should not have voted at all. Any one of those 20 votes could have proved decisive, since Democrat James Wheeler defeated Republican Louis Belcher by a margin of one (10,660 to 10,659). County Judge James Kelley thought he could establish the winner of the election simply by asking the 20 illegal voters how they cast their ballots. The first 15 called before him dutifully answered, but when...
...press conference, Jimmy Carter said that Bert Lance "needs to go home and take care of his own business." He certainly does. Reports that he was close to bankruptcy seemed exaggerated, but unquestionably the wheeler-dealer from Calhoun had suffered some severe setbacks...
...cars that I swore I couldn't afford, but the $12,000 I'm paying seems like nothing for what I've got. A car is transportation, but a van is an experience, even just sitting there. Also, after pushing an 18-wheeler around all day, it's a comfortable way to go home and still be above traffic. And watching the Caddy and Mercedes drivers eat their hearts out at times doesn't hurt...
...sure, after Park's indictment was unsealed, the White House revealed that President Carter had already asked South Korea's President Park Chung Hee to deliver the elusive wheeler-dealer to the U.S. for questioning before the House Ethics Committee by Special Counsel Leon Jaworski. But the Korean leader has turned aside repeated inquiries by U.S. diplomats about Park, often citing an unwillingness to abridge his "human rights." Rejecting the latest entreaties from Washington, Seoul's Foreign Minister Park Tong Jin observed curtly that "as a fully sovereign and law-governed nation, Korea finds no reason...