Word: bidding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...national record for campaign expenditures during a Senate race is $29.9 million, spent by California Republican Michael Huffington in his unsuccessful bid for the Senate against Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif...
...this ruckus are supposed to be grand, according to the official pronouncements. San Diego will earn a place in the national spotlight (likely prodding every home viewer who salivates over the 75-degree, humidity-free weather to move here). San Diego's mayor could gain enough name recognition to bid for higher office in 1998 (the Associated Press is even including a profile of her in its media advance kit--Chicago's Richard Daly is not as lucky). And San Diego businesses will reap untold profits...
State Sen. Warren E. Tolman (D-Watertown), whose district includes parts of Cambridge, will employ Melissa G. Liazos '96 in the key campaign position as he makes a bid for re-election...
LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas: Ending six days of deliberation, the federal jury in the second Whitewater trial acquitted two Arkansas bankers on four counts of conspiring to illegally use bank money to fund Bill Clinton's 1990 bid for governor. The jury remained hopelessly deadlocked on the remaining seven counts against Herby Branscum Jr. and Robert M. Hilland and the judge declared a mistrial on those charges. That action leaves open the possibility that Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr could call for a retrial on those charges. What the bankers can not be retried for is the charge that they conspired...
...quixotic bid for the presidency in 1980, the earnest former Republican Congressman from Illinois with a distinctive helmet of white hair emerged from political obscurity to attack Reagan's economic proposals and Carter's foreign policy and to attract an army of idealistic supporters. With a late start and without a billionaire's bank account, Anderson was still able to garner nearly 7% of the vote, provoking pols and pundits to ponder anew the viability of independent and third-party candidacies. Today Anderson, a visiting professor of law at Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale, travels the lecture circuit...