Word: backers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...clients will be satisfied with the way they are portrayed. One key is finding a reputable producer. Golden persuaded Client Sonia Johnson, who was expelled from the Mormon Church in 1979 because of her outspoken support of the Equal Rights Amendment, to pick Norman Lear, an ardent ERA backer. Says Golden: "It wouldn't have mattered if he had offered only one half the money that anyone else...
...White House were really interested in hanging on to Allen, the president would be staunchly backing him as he did David Stockman. Instead, his aides are dropping heavy hints that they want Allen out, although presidential counselor Edwin Meese III is reportedly Allen's strongest backer within the administration. This is the reason for the double standard, and why Reagan partisan James J. Kilpatrick, for example, wrote a column entitled "Why Allen Should Be Fired...
Although Kohl himself is a staunch backer of the missiles, he improvised a sentence in his keynote speech to placate younger, skeptical C.D.U. members. "We belong to the peace movement," he declared. "And we want disarmament and detente." Kohl also agreed to let 500 jeans-sporting youths, some not party members, have a voice at the convention...
...supply-side economists and their supporters, who first sponsored the large tax cuts and budget reductions that President Reagan pushed through Congress earlier this year, are now saying that a return to gold would quickly bring down interest rates. North Carolina Republican Jesse Helms, the Senate's leading backer of the yellow metal and author of a bill to restore the gold standard, claims that such action would reduce interest rates "to probably three or four percent...
...where many of them heard loud complaints about the level of interest rates. Said House Republican Leader Robert Michel of Illinois: "We can't live with a 20% prime. Something has got to give in the next 90 days." Added California Republican John H. Rousselot, a strong Reagan backer: "On a crisis scale of one to ten, I'd say we're about seven and climbing...