Word: chairman
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...George W.'s style has been to develop a limited, specific agenda and then focus almost exclusively on it until he could check all the items off the list. "He realizes that if you have too many goals, you don't have any goals," says Bush campaign chairman Don Evans. What's more, some advisers suggest, Bush plans to push the hardest ones first: his gaudy tax cut, they say, will probably take a backseat to the arduous work of transforming Social Security...
...smoking guns, maybe, but there have been newsmaking incidents, like that little fund raiser held by the sand-and-gravel industry a few years ago for a state-senate committee chairman the day before he was to consider a bill helpful to the industry. (He denies being swayed.) And earlier this year, senate majority leader Chellie Pingree received a letter from a Pfizer Corp. lobbyist saying the firm would no longer contribute to state Democrats after she and the house speaker pushed the prescription-drug bill...
...would be reading Margaret Salinger's book. Unlike Salinger, Tina isn't out to keelhaul her father, at least not consciously. "He was a man who all his life looked outside for what was missing inside," she concludes at one point. Still, you hate to see the Chairman of the Board reduced to the level of a case study for an Oprah segment...
...sure, it's unlikely that Chairman Arafat's headquarters would have moved from Tunis to the West Bank without the intifada. The PLO's efforts to launch guerrilla warfare against Israel from neighboring Arab states had been singularly unsuccessful. Arafat's headquarters had been in Jordan in the late '60s and Lebanon in the '70s and early '80s, but by 1987 he was billeted in far-off Tunisia with few instruments to pursue his nationalist struggle. Then came the uprising in the West Bank and Gaza. The young men of the territories occupied by Israel in 1967 may have suffered...
Schweitzer has also tried to needle Burns about his promise to serve only two terms. But Burns says that since Democrats in Congress defeated a term-limits amendment, which he supported, he's not going to throw away his position as chairman of the Commerce Committee's influential Communications Subcommittee. There, he has become such a proponent of e-commerce and privacy protection that Yahoo magazine called him "one of the Fathers of the Internet." Don't tell Al Gore...