Word: wings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Magazine featured a cover story on Trent Lott, the Republican Senate majority leader from Mississippi, in which Lott is described as "gracious and conservative," though the writer warns that he may have trouble managing his more partisan colleagues. Lott may not have the ideological fire to satisfy the right wing of his party; instead, he is perhaps better characterized as a pragmatist...
...order to keep state contracts worth more than $1 million (he says a state law compelled him to do so). And I found it wryly amusing that Prop 209's organizers picked Connerly as field marshal of their war on race consciousness precisely because of his race. The right-wing ideologues who crafted the California Civil Rights Initiative knew it was doomed if only resentful white guys seemed to support it. So they aggressively recruited Connerly to put a black face on the issue. Even so, last week Connerly told me that the Prop 209ers were interested chiefly...
...defensive reporters tried to come up with some other reason for not having aggressively followed up Paula Jones' accusation against Bill Clinton--the fact, for instance, that it was initially packaged by right-wing Clinton opponents at a time when it would not have been surprising to hear collectors of Clinton atrocities accuse him of having engineered the Black Sox scandal...
...these objectivists, there is not a moment's doubt. It reminds me of a few lines from Al Franken's hilarious book Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot: "Limbaugh presented...disinformation that was devoured whole by a studio audience of rabid--but extraordinarily straight-laced--right-wing yahoos. These are the fans who voluntarily--hell, gleefully--call themselves 'dittoheads' in honor of their ability to blindly and uncritically agree with everything that comes out of Limbaugh's mouth...
...Atlantic Foundation and Atlantic Trust, owns neither a house nor a car, and an associate said he always flies coach. As the largest single donor to Sinn Fein, Feeney, 65, who holds dual Irish and American citizenship, maintains that the more than $200,000 he gave the IRA wing was used to fund nonviolent functions. When asked why he decided to give his vast fortune away, Feeney said he had more than enough money, and a terrific amount of luck...