Word: bidness
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...sure, the amount of money spent on a bid for the House or the Senate doesn't always determine the outcome. Even the nearly $30 million effort by California Republican Michael Huffington in 1994 could not unseat Dianne Feinstein in the Senate race. But judging by the ever rising flood of dollars in and out of campaign coffers across the country, the odds still favor a well-funded contender--especially an incumbent. The average victor in a 1994 Senate race spent more than $4.5 million; losers spent around $3.4 million each. Half a million was the going price...
...beer glass. And unless Kelly takes the stand in his own defense, which he has not yet decided to do, the jury may never learn that a second girl, this one 17 at the time, claims that Kelly raped her four days later, under almost identical circumstances. (In a bid for change of venue, on the ground that the local jury pool was prejudiced by publicity, the Kellys paid later-to-be-disgraced White House adviser Dick Morris $25,000 for polling...
RESIGNING. GRO HARLEM BRUNDTLAND, 57, Norway's first woman Prime Minister; in Oslo. The surprise announcement, a year before elections, fueled speculation that she may be preparing a bid to become Secretary-General of the United Nations...
...brief and tumultuous life, most recently in the form of the affirmative action debate in both Texas and California, and in a more national sense, in terms of the passive acceptance of Proposition 187's ideals in the shape of California Governor Pete Wilson's failed presidential bid. It is not that Proposition 187's ideals are being glorified, but that the eerie silence with which it is being met can only spell more trouble in the coming years for Latinos in this country. What must be done, especially in this presidential election year, is to reflect on Proposition...
...post season. Led by junior Henry Higdon, who stepped it up in crunch time, the Crimson pulled off three victories in the ECAC Tournament and lost by only one goal to Cornell in the tournament final in Lake Placid. Had Harvard won, it would have received an automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament...