Word: counterpuncher
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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NAME: Danny Glover OCCUPATION: Tolerating Mel Gibson COUNTERPUNCH: The Lethal Weapon star and onetime cabdriver filed a formal complaint with the city's taxi and limousine commission, charging discrimination, and proposed all taxi drivers take a course in diversity training...
...earnings and beat the printed estimates by 6%. The stock fell because the whisper number was higher. Stinks, doesn't it? And don't expect the SEC to help with Wall Street's little games. It's watching; so far that's all. But patience can be an effective counterpunch. In the long run, stocks track earnings growth, no matter who's breathing what in whose...
...proposals. (The latest Republican commercial predicts disastrous tax increases for several average Americans, dubious calculations that senior adviser Charles Black lamely defends as legitimate because the spot claims "only" that such horrors "could" occur, not that they necessarily will.) Bush's team professes delight with Clinton's reflexive counterpunch -- a series of ads that slam the President's fiscal record. "We're already dead meat on the economy," says a Republican operative. "He can't put us in the hole any deeper. He hasn't closed his sale. He's still new in the public's mind. He should...
...incident better illustrates the Democrats' ability to counterpunch than last week's attack on Clinton by Bush's Southern campaign chairman, South Carolina Governor Carroll Campbell. At a Washington press conference last Wednesday, Campbell blasted Clinton's Arkansas record and reiterated the G.O.P.'s standard line: Clinton's a closet liberal who favors "tax and spend all the way." Thanks to the news wires, Campbell's pending appearance had been noted in Little Rock, and thanks to Betsey Wright, Clinton's former gubernatorial chief of staff, the Democrats struck back even before Campbell spoke. Wright has collected just about everything...
...hardly waiting for an excuse to counterpunch. For months Harkin, 51, prepared for his formal announcement of candidacy last weekend by conducting the kind of aggressive populist campaign at which he excels. When he castigates the Reagan and Bush administrations for favoring the rich and harming the less affluent, he sings from the standard party hymnal. But when Harkin gets personal, he deftly exploits the politics of roots and resentment. He is the son of a Slovene immigrant mother who died young and an Iowan coal miner who never got to high school. In attacking the patrician President he keenly...