1.   Giffin has that pull because he has been a longtime insider in state and national Democratic circles.

2.   Instead, Sample was replaced by longtime insider Chip Drapeau, who continues to run the company.

3.   Longtime insiders favored a more conservative approach.

4.   One longtime Apollo program insider, though, said Yeager always had what it took to fly in space.

5.   Some independent analysts said the crime appeared to be politically motivated, since Ruiz Massieu was a longtime PRI insider.

6.   An intellectual and complex man, the longtime insider in the governing African National Congress party has revealed little of his plans for the nation.

7.   To Congress, the Clinton administration engineered the ouster of Boutros-Ghali and the election of longtime U.N. insider Annan of Ghana as the seventh U.N. secretary-general.