Word: pro
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Each Congressman was trying to outmaneuver the other in what is something of a popularity contest. But the sponsors of the festivities had their eye on the bottom line. Which of the two pro-business legislators wins scarcely matters to them so long as they maintain access to the winner...
...that in perspective. Woods had joined the pro tour only seven months earlier, at age 20, and captivated the game and its fans as no rookie ever had. He had won four of the 15 PGA Tour tournaments he entered, earning $1.8 million in prize money and some $60 million in endorsement contracts from the likes of Nike and Titleist. At the Masters, against the best golfers in the world, he had virtually lapped the field, winning by a record 12 strokes. He was being hailed as the next Jack Nicklaus, who is considered the greatest golfer of all time...
...secretive about the process that he kept even his closest aides in the dark. He would poll them at senior staff meetings--"Give me your top three picks!" he would demand--but he would never play the game. He flirted publicly with "bold" contenders like Tom Ridge, Pennsylvania's pro-choice Governor, but never let on that Ridge had quietly taken himself out of the running in early July, citing family considerations. And he kept coming back to the safest option--a seasoned Washington insider who would please the party faithful and whose fealty to the Bush family had been...
...appalling thing to say, Barbara Bush later noted, especially to a freshman, who would hardly be likely to darken the chapel doors after an encounter like that. But that was not the last time W. found himself defending his father in a climate in which pro-Vietnam Nixon men were not exactly popular...
...care about animals. I'm pro-fur and pro-animal testing, and though it's not my preferred method of gambling, cockfighting is fine with me. But I do love mischief. And from what I can tell, the animal-loving freaks at the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals are the only ones having any fun. So I called Tracy Reiman, leader of peta's Commando Chicks, a group of women who dress in skimpy showgirl outfits to protest chicken eating. These women were willing to degrade themselves for animals. That...