Word: harriette
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...came last Tuesday, one day after Citron resigned and CS First Boston demanded immediate repayment of a $1.2 billion loan that the treasurer had used to buy bonds. County supervisor Harriett Wieder awoke before dawn to the sound of a police officer pounding on her door and summoning her to an emergency briefing. By 11 a.m. California time, Orange County's troubles were the talk of regulators in Washington. At 5:30 p.m. the county filed for bankruptcy protection to prevent other creditors from calling their loans and selling the fund's bonds that they held as collateral...
...When I ran," recalls two-time Senate candidate and former Missouri Lieutenant Governor Harriett Woods, "there was a 10% automatic disadvantage for a woman. This year there may have even been a slight benefit" -- a trend that will not easily be reversed. (See related story in main section...
...Supreme Court is only one vote away from outlawing abortion, and the Houston convention showed that that's what will happen if Bush is back. A majority of Orange Republicans are pro-choice, and this issue is finally resonating with them." It's "not just the economy," says Harriett Wieder, an Orange County supervisor. "I have to deal with the growing number of white collars who are crowding our emergency rooms. We need national health care, and Bush doesn...
Indeed, conservatives can barely conceal their glee over Thomas' performance. "The court no longer sees itself as the moral conscience of the nation bent on improving on the state of mankind," says Bruce Fein, a conservative legal scholar, approvingly. On the wall of Thomas' chambers is a Harriett Erlich drawing titled Freedom that shows three black children with outstretched arms. Thomas might ponder its message; his own liberation from the poverty of Pin Point, Ga., and his rise to the court would have been unthinkable without the body of liberal jurisprudence he now casts into doubt...
...George Bush is sticking to his antiabortion stance to placate conservatives. That rigid stand could trigger a revolt by Republican women who are threatening to cross party lines to support candidates who favor the right to abortion. "All my adult life I have been a devoted Republican woman," says Harriett Wieder, a member of the board of supervisors in Orange County, Calif. "Now I'm a woman Republican. Gender comes before party." That so many G.O.P. women agree with her could mean trouble under the big tent...