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...term, was criticized by inside-the-Beltway critics for preferring cozy dinners with his family to cocktails with power brokers.Personal contact has always been essential to getting things done in Washington and is even more important when governmental...
...organizers warned that defining the movement more broadly keeps everyone in and keeps responsibility in the hands of the power brokers. Said Parrott: "They've achieved a lot by having the open-ended process that they've had so far. ... They...
...a non-starter, as is a candidate who hasn't contested for the nomination.For better or worse, voters, not power brokers, pick presidential nominees. If Romney wins Michigan and Ohio, he's right back to being the overwhelming favorite...
...members are seeking purity from the GOP candidates and have reacted skeptically to those largely linked to the party power brokers, particularly Romney."Truthfully, she's a hell of a lot closer to where the party is right now than where they...
...by spring. Another hot issue in the town halls--the cost of prescription drugs--has reached the Washington power-brokers. The pharmaceutical industry has come around to conversing with the administration about steps, short of price controls...
...Conservative Alan Keyes had a solid third-place showing with 14 percent. ''This is not a good night for the power brokers in Washington,'' Forbes told cheering backers Monday night. ''We broke the political rules.'' Forbes argued...
...it illegally,'' Ventura added, referring to the much fought-over party rules. ''You have a small group of power brokers in this party that won't allow it to grow nationally, and that's not conducive to what we want to do in Minnesota...
...Cabinet voted unanimously Sunday to withdraw by July from the zone Israel set up in Lebanon in 1985. Syria, the main power broker in Lebanon, wants Israel out of the occupied zone but does not want it to withdraw unilaterally. ''Such a formula...
...kept quiet. Unfortunately, the answer to this question isn't entirely in Barak's hands. Assad remains the chief power broker in Lebanon. He can restrain or unleash Hezbollah as he wishes. Syria may view this power as a useful bargaining chip...