Word: loyalize
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Surprisingly, even many loyal gang members admit that their ranks would be thinned if quitting wasn't so dangerous. "People want to get out of gangs, but they're afraid of getting whooped," says Enirque Quiroz, 20, a hard-core member of the Latin Kings in Chicago. Quiroz, a lumbering fellow who has been shot at 12 times, jailed five times, sliced in the elbow and the chin and had his hands broken with a bat, is exactly the kind of guy who makes getting out so problematic. Although he acknowledges some qualms about cracking the heads of close friends...
...example, only to have the New York Republican blast him days later for spending too much time on the golf course. Says Thomas ("Lud") Ashley, a close Bush friend since both men were at Yale: "George is normally a very even-tempered guy, but he's also a very loyal guy. And when he doesn't get loyalty in return, that does tick...
They are among Harvard's most loyal citizens, associated with the University's most impressive scientific research accomplishments. They outnumber students by more than three to one, yet they almost never emerge alive from their ultra-secure quarters...
...outcome." Says William Bennett, a former Cabinet member who remains close to Bush and Quayle: "When George Bush was at 85% in the polls, was Dan Quayle doing anything differently? No. Quayle has not set the world on fire, but he has done his job. He has been loyal, and he has appeal to the conservative base." Bennett, Weber and other top Bush advisers agree that removing Quayle would hurt the President more than it would help, by compounding the damage from his abandoned "no new taxes" vow. Says Bennett: "It would look like another broken promise: wobbly, panicky...
...policies and his attempt to pack the Supreme Court, entered the presidential race himself. With the Nazi threat to Europe looming larger in the summer of 1940, Roosevelt engineered his own renomination and shunted Garner aside in favor of Secretary of Agriculture Henry Wallace, a former Republican but a loyal New Dealer...