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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fund-raising; now that number is $206,000. Republican freshmen, likewise, had banked an average of $109,000; this year, it?s $203,000. "We're raising record numbers, they're raising record numbers," said Rep. Thomas M. Davis III (R-Va.), who heads the House Republicans? campaign arm. "It's Armageddon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Noise? It's the Jingling of Warchests | 8/11/1999 | See Source »

...TENNESSEE Legislators ax a bill that would have let faculty members arm themselves on campus but passes a bill to ban gun suits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Nationwide Backlash | 8/9/1999 | See Source »

...surprisingly, my first attempt was a relative failure: The arm that I lifted with so much promise would drop quickly back to my side, the victim of what appeared to be an occupied taxi coming near. As the cab whizzed by, I saw that it was indeed empty, my lack of confidence punishable with a fine of a few minutes standing unnecessarily in the smothering D.C. heat...

Author: By Scott A. Resnick, | Title: The First Time is Special | 8/6/1999 | See Source »

...next attempt, like the first, was also unsuccessful. This time, the few cabs that passed by were actually full and my outstretched arm proved to be an insufficient lure...

Author: By Scott A. Resnick, | Title: The First Time is Special | 8/6/1999 | See Source »

Across the intersection, however, I saw an oasis. Dotting the sea of metallic car roofs that shimmered in the heat at the traffic light were several white taxi signs. Once again, I stretched out my arm, looking toward the throng of cars and hoping, praying even, that one of those cabbies might catch...

Author: By Scott A. Resnick, | Title: The First Time is Special | 8/6/1999 | See Source »

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