Word: wickers
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Mississippi--home of the blues...but things are getting better. And not the least for Republicans--Senator Trent Lott is Senate Majority Leader, Senator Thad Cochran heads two Senate agriculture committees--and farming is key in Mississippi--Haley Barbour is G.O.P. chairman, and Representative Roger Wicker was the first president of the Republican class of 1994. For a state with only five congressional districts, Mississippi packs a good deal of political wollop. There is also drama: a party-switching incumbent in the Fourth, an open race in the Third, and two African American firsts--Danny Covington in the Second...
...President Clinton's State of the Union speech, is staunchly opposed to the Contract with America and what he considers the agenda of the G.O.P. freshmen, which he believes fails to address the needs of farmers, the working class and the poor. He has the perfect opponent in Roger Wicker, the first president of the Republican class of 1994 and a vocal Contract advocate...
...ROGER WICKER (R) District...
...media's display of false astonishment that some people would pay so much for items of such small monetary value wasn't surprising. Indeed, if the media is "our national nervous system," as Tom Wicker, the former New York Times columnist, wrote in a 1983 article looking back on the Kennedy years, then its anxious effort, in this period when many still consider it good to be selfish and greedy, to escape examining the emotions which the auction made manifest is understandable...
...value simplicity. Gyres of wind, they believe, must be subject to Ockham's razor, a principle first stated by 14th century philosopher William of Ockham. According to this principle, the theories most likely to prove true are those shorn of unnecessary embellishments. But, says Texas A&M meteorologist Louis Wicker, the process of tornado formation now looks more complicated than ever. In fact, the more VORTEX data sets he feeds into his computer models, the more convinced he is that there could be several ways to make a tornado. "Nature," he laughs, "has kicked us in the pants...