Word: wifely
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...were almost too rich to pick from, and if you believe the Gore folks, all were off target. While each man played some part in getting the Vice President to bring Coelho aboard, Gore aides say the pivotal role belonged to the one person no one suspected--Gore's wife Tipper. Several campaign aides described Tipper as the godmother of the shuffle, the biggest fan of the deal. One added that Tipper, far more than the half-dozen bickering guys in Gore's inner circle, "knew there had to be some help in here. Somebody was needed to knock some...
...Television Network plot line: Coelho, who suffers from epilepsy and chairs the President's Committee on Employment of People with Disabilities, said he was so moved by Tipper's admission of depression that he decided to take the job. In any case, the deal was sealed when Gore, his wife and Coelho all met for two hours last Saturday at the Vice President's house. At that session, Tipper had one thing on her mind. She wanted to make sure that Coelho would really throw himself into the job so Al could concentrate on connecting with voters...
Ambassador James Sasser knew real fear when his wife Mary told him over a mobile phone that a mob of Chinese students was smashing windows, pitching Molotov cocktails and apparently preparing to break into their Beijing residence. Sasser was half a mile away, trapped inside the U.S. embassy by a similar mob, unable to step outside the door without risking his life. "That was the worst of it all," Sasser told TIME, "not being able to get to my family." It was 3:30 on Sunday afternoon in Beijing, 34 hours after American bombs had wrecked the Chinese embassy...
...Columbine had never happened. I came to the annual Electronic Entertainment Expo--the first E3 since the Littleton, Colo., massacre--expecting to find the video- game industry in a defensive crouch. After all, everybody from my wife to the President has made hay out of the fact that the boys who fired 600 rounds at their teachers and fellow students had nurtured their violent revenge fantasies, at least in part, playing splatter games like Doom and Quake. But on the floor of the Los Angeles Convention Center, where Quake III, the newest, bloodiest version, was on display, the only question...
Peralta's wife, Renate Hellmiss-Peralta, said her husband was a "workaholic," but also enjoyed playing the guitar, which he studied for several years...