Word: whips
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When they got around to the morbidly sexy Morticia of the Addams Family, the Theatrical members tied her hands in two tiny nooses and a member clad in black leather pants and white body makeup and struck her lightly with a whip...
...With a monorail, you could whip across the Charles without having to stop at any lights,” he says...
...White House believes are palatable. Another Lott ally, Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum, who is third in rank and chairs the Senate Republican Conference, flirted briefly with the idea of challenging Frist for the majority leader's job. To run the floor, Frist will have to rely heavily on his whip, Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell, who has more legislative experience. But that holds risks for Frist. "McConnell will pursue his own agenda. Mitch is very clever, and he's very smart. And he's not a guy to allow a vacuum of power to exist," says a Republican Senator. McConnell tells...
...average cut for the bottom 80% would be $239, according to the left-leaning Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. The top 1% would get breaks of $24,400 on average. "You have to give tax cuts to the people who pay taxes," argues House Majority whip Roy Blunt. Most of the benefits would kick in around election time, 18 months from now. Should the stock market bounce back and unemployment fall by that time too, Republicans believe that voters won't care if the rich get richer - as long as they do too. Democrats, who have their own, more...
...Instead Cheney followed the same pattern in the House that had worked for him to date: he quietly made himself useful - and then indispensable - to the higher powers in his party. Bob Michel, the G.O.P. House leader, repaid Cheney's loyalty by making him his No. 2, the G.O.P. whip, in late 1988. When President Bush called Michel in March 1989 to say he was nominating Cheney to be Defense Secretary, Michel was distraught. "I said, 'Mr. President, you're taking my right arm,'" he recalls...