Word: whips
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Though called too radical to win by many political observers King showed he could whip up popular support when he placed third in the 1979 open primary--behind White and Joseph F. Timility, who is not running this year--and ahead of David I. Finnegan...
...Senate is likely to act quickly: the jobs package is legislatively appended to a $5 billion bill to extend the additional unemployment-benefits program due to expire March 31. Meanwhile, House Democrats are readying for floor action in April a "phase 2" bill, which Democratic House Whip Thomas Foley says "is almost certain to go beyond what the Administration wants...
...perpetual displeasure, Lewis sang country, which was not then considered commercially lot. But he also played mean boogie-woogie. He would sit down on the edge of the bench, right leg stuck out stiff, a habit acquired from practicing when he had a Broken hip. He would whip up a heavy rhythm with his left hand and play such a furious melody with his right that the tune would beg for mercy. The sound was backwoods, roadhouse. Phillips listened to all of ten seconds of Lewis' audition tape of Crazy Arms. "I can sell that," he said...
...prevent that from happening, the oil ministers of Saudi Arabia and several of its oil-rich Persian Gulf neighbors agreed to lower the official OPEC price by an undisclosed amount. The gulf nations were hoping to whip the other OPEC members into accepting the new price floor at a meeting this week. Failure to do so, the Arabs seemed to sense, could mean the end of OPEC. Said a senior OPEC official: "The war begins. It is very dangerous...
...secret discussions bore fruit last Thursday in a meeting in the Speaker's office that included O'Neill, Stockman, Democratic Whip Thomas Foley, Majority Leader Jim Wright of Texas and Presidential Aides James Baker, Richard Darman and Kenneth Duberstein. The $4.3 billion package, which will create only 125,000 new jobs, contains less than first meets the eye. It is mainly the acceleration of scheduled projects, and thus involves only about $700 million in new spending. But from a symbolic standpoint, it allows the Democrats to claim a victory for the jobless while allowing Reagan to meet...