Word: hutchison
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...seen their high-profile ad campaign in numerous national magazines, a mock ballot printed with the photos of 20 women who were chosen as strong potential candidates. The photos include those of Hillary Rodham Clinton, Elizabeth Dole, Marian Wright Edelman and Senators Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) and Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Texas). Though the ballot is only hypothetical, its collection of portraits and profiles makes more tangible in the minds of the American public the possibility that a woman might someday be president. After all, with so many strong candidates on the short list, couldn't you find...
...President Jimmy Carter sold the handover treaty to Congress, there was much whining about turning the canal into little more than an expensive toll road. The latest version of this anxiety adds a national security tweak: fear of China. In 1997, the Panamanian government finalized a rich deal with Hutchison Whampoa Ltd., based in Hong Kong, to run two ports near the entrances to the canal. American-owned Bechtel lost out to Hutchison under a less than transparent bidding process...
...rekindled in August when Senate majority leader Trent Lott complained that the U.S. had "given the farm away without a shot being fired." In particular, said Lott, the deal means "U.S. naval ships will be at the mercy of Chinese-controlled pilots and could even be denied passage by Hutchison," which he calls "an arm of the People's Liberation Army...
...observers believe that Hutchison is an arm of the P.L.A. The publicly held firm manages 19 ports in Asia, Europe and the Americas. Shipping experts consider the company among the world's finest. And, says Joseph Cornelison, the commission's deputy administrator, "we'll control the timing of ships going in and out of Hutchison's ports." Moreover, under the treaty, U.S. Navy ships will keep their privilege of cutting to the front of the line of vessels waiting to traverse the canal...
...1970s he dated ABC News correspondent Barbara Walters. Before that, Greenspan had been paired with Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Texas...