Word: backer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...years in federal prison. Stadler's startling disqualification of two weeks ago is a complicated parable about the relative weight of rules. But it helps to view the affair from the vantage point of Rick Meissner, late of the golf circuit, who in lieu of a more traditional backer knocked off 19 savings and loans as he toured...
...sponsoring companies found itself $4 million short. That is about the same amount that the New York Yacht Club syndicate spent on its entire 1983 defense. Burnham appealed to the press, and the stories have helped bring in $1.3 million, including an additional $250,000 from an early backer, Budweiser...
...down the streets of Little Havana handing out cigars and autographed photos. And, yes, he even sings his own campaign song: "You've got a friend in Bob Graham/ Let's send him to Washington and make Florida No. 1 . . . Bob Graham is a cracker/ Be a Graham cracker backer...
...Alfonso Robelo, one of the three top rebel political chiefs who lead the United Nicaraguan Opposition. "For the first time we can count on more permanent support." But the military aid will also put pressure on the contras to show some results in Nicaragua. Insisted Louisiana Democrat and Contra Backer Buddy Roemer: "There will be no blank checks for the contras...
Their appetite unspoiled, the brothers now want Saatchi & Saatchi (1985 billings: $3 billion) to become the largest ad agency in the world. Last week the company agreed to pay an estimated $100 million to acquire New York City's Backer & Spielvogel (billings: $400 million), a fast-growing agency best known for its Miller Lite ads. The acquisition will make Saatchi & Saatchi the world's third ranking ad agency, behind Tokyo's Dentsu ($3.62 billion) and New York City-based Young & Rubicam ($3.57 billion), according to Advertising Age, a trade journal...