Word: yanking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...colleagues in Congress that "when it comes to a tough vote, he's going to be with you and won't leave you out there hanging like some Presidents have done." Ground zero is the House Ways and Means Committee, where lobbyists hover over the 38 members as they yank and pull at each spending proposal. "At Ways and Means, we're looking at the most important six months of the committee's existence," says Texas Congressman Bill Archer, the ranking Republican. "If lobbyists can organize so much turmoil over a little tax loophole, just imagine what they...
...spent the past eight years wandering in the political wilderness. After Ronald Reagan routed Walter Mondale in 1984, From and a group of mostly Southern Democrats organized the Democratic Leadership Council (D.L.C.). The group wanted to yank the party to the right, certain that Democrats could regain the White House only with fewer appeals to special interests and more to the predominantly white, politically moderate, middle- class voters. Pundits predicted the council's early demise, and Jesse Jackson derided it as "the Southern White Boys Club." But its diagnosis of the party's ills seemed to be borne...
...phone line to be established in February will feature a recording that informs callers of counseling, medical and legal resources available--both on and off campus--for victims of abuse, Yank said...
...Yank said the group, which yesterday met for the second time, will seek funding from the Radcliffe Union of Students...
...group will conduct a campus wide survey to establish the extent of problems of domestic violence, Yank said. The group also hopes to bring attorney Sarah Buell, a Harvard Law School alumnus and an expert in domestic violence issues, to speak...