Word: congressman
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...exuberant duchess of Hickory Hill, while driving to work along the Potomac River parkways. And if in the media or a lobbying business (a reasonable likelihood in that neighborhood), he or she would sooner or later sit down with Massachusetts Senator Ted Kennedy or his son, Rhode Island Congressman Patrick Kennedy, now in the House leadership, to make a little political rain. Naturally, while attending one of those rites of pretentious power, like the Alfalfa Club dinner, our not-so-mythical Beltway denizens would look across a crowded ballroom or two and marvel at the intense stir created...
...from the hawkish wing of his party, having broken with most Democrats to vote in favor of the Gulf War. And unlike Clinton, he served in Vietnam. Gore set his fix on world affairs early in his political career, though it was not an obvious area for a junior Congressman elected from the plateau of Middle Tennessee. Even on the environment, Gore's signature issue, the questions that stirred his passions most were global warming and ozone depletion...
...second spirit from the past was brought back by the Democrats themselves. Vice President Al Gore, seeking to bring order and a sense of direction to his sluggish campaign, named former congressman Tony Coelho, a once formidable Democratic strategist and fund-raiser, to be its general chairman. "Coelho is the person who brought the Democratic party into the modern era of world-class fund-raising by hitting powerful business interests," says TIME White House correspondent Karen Tumulty. "The appointment is surprising because it?s a double-edged sword" that could be used by Gore?s opponents. While Coelho?s modern...
...Experts had never seen anything spread so fast. People trusted Melissa; she arrived disguised as an e-mail from a friend or colleague. In a matter of days, she was replicating herself all over cyberspace--from Berlin to Beijing, from the U.S. Marine Corps to the office of Republican Congressman Jim Talent--causing shutdowns in more than 300 computer networks. Worse still, her freely available source code soon spawned copycat viruses, like Papa and Mad Cow. Suddenly, Melissa wasn't sexy, crazy or even cool anymore. She was a menace to wired society...
...campus radicals, these '90s-style protesters have made an impact. Michigan and Wisconsin, among other schools, have vowed to push licensing companies to disclose locations of textile factories and then guarantee certain wages and conditions for workers. "They have forced the universities to move on this issue," says Congressman George Miller, a California Democrat on the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, who sent the students a letter of support signed by 23 of his colleagues...