Word: cheneys
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...names in the guest book at State College, Pa., reads like GOP veep-finder Dick Cheney's legal pad - Tom Ridge, Tommy Thompson, John Engler, George Pataki, Jim Gilmore, Christy Whitman. All are popular, moderate and Republican. For Gore and the Democrats, there's just one: California's Gray Davis. And he doesn't want...
This week GEORGE W. BUSH named his father's Defense Secretary, DICK CHENEY, to head his vice-presidential selection team, upping speculation that General COLIN POWELL, Cheney's partner during the Gulf War, might be approached. Some in Bushland feel only Cheney can persuade his old friend to take the post--but it will be tough. Not only has Powell had a long-standing disregard for the No. 2 job, but sources say he was particularly disturbed by Bush's South Carolina campaign--his failure to take a position on the Confederate flag flying above the state capitol...
...reliability concerns, says TIME Washington correspondent Mark Thompson, the Osprey's progress will continue to be stymied by economic worries, not safety fears. "Since it was introduced in 1981, the Osprey has been considered good technology, but at too high a price," says Thompson. "[Bush secretary of defense] Dick Cheney tried repeatedly to kill the program, but support in Congress was too strong to overcome." The debate now, says Thompson, is over whether this revolutionary aircraft - which uses tilt-rotor technology, enabling it to take off and land like a helicopter but fly like a plane - is worth its hefty...