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...limits through a type of earmarking called "tallying," which routes their big checks to the party and then back to their candidate of choice. The Washington Post found memos from the campaign of Senator Carl Levin, a Michigan Democrat, that openly asked donors to tally their extra contributions to benefit his campaign. One letter from Levin soliciting a tallied contribution from the Chrysler Corp.'s PAC in 1995 called it "crucial to my re-election effort next year...
Does Fidelity's new strategy for expansion--leveraging its massive technology infrastructure to obtain new revenues via benefit plans, human-resources-administration duties and payrolls--raise concerns about the company's focus and privacy issues? Fidelity's access to personal information in these areas would no doubt give the firm a leading edge on target marketing and family life-style offerings. The strategy is brilliant in keeping Fidelity revenues smooth, but it scares me to death. George Orwell's only flaws in prediction were in the timing and the number of Big Brothers we will have in this brave...
...skaters volunteer their time each year and all profits go towards the Jimmy Fund Benefit...
According to classroom volunteers, the students benefit from skills they learn in the program and apply them to real life situations...
Many figures are bandied about regarding the homosexual population in the United States, but the most accepted one is 10 percent. Just to give voters the benefit of the doubt, though, let's say 5 percent of America is homosexual. To my knowledge, no senators are openly gay, and Barney Frank is the most outspoken homosexual in Congress. So we have a 0 percent gay population in the Senate and a fraction of a percent in the House. America may never be ready for a gay president, much less a first partner...