Word: breakfast
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that advice until the qualification itself, the delicate attempts to fine-tune one's own emotions, become the real subject of the music: he starts by telling himself to wake up and smell the coffee, and ends by becoming a coffee connoisseur. (One Orange Juice song is even called "Breakfast Time." Self-mocking...
...post-election breakfast, Ed Rollins, campaign manager for Gov.-elect Christine Todd Whitman, declared quite openly that he had used $500,000 to pay off Black ministers in New Jersey so they wouldn't press their congregations to the polls. If Rollins had been enjoying bacon and eggs at home and talking privately to his wife about his shenanigans, some shrewd investigative reporting might have unearthed the story. But Rollins was in Washington D.C., and he was eating with a gaggle of journalists at a public occasion when he casually revealed his plot...
...Over breakfast with reporters on Nov. 9, Rollins had asserted that black ministers and Democratic workers were paid to keep black turnout low. Democrats, who have filed a lawsuit asking to invalidate the election, acknowledged that the Rollins deposition failed to provide a smoking gun but vowed to keep fighting. Said Democratic state committee chairman Raymond Lesniak: "I am not going to drop our investigation based on his bizarre explanation." Federal and state criminal probes are under way as well...
...breakfast meeting with Washington journalists, Rollins claimed that "street smart" New Jersey Republicans had doled out $500,000 in "walking-around money" to black ministers and Democratic Party activists on Whitman's behalf. But in this case the payments were actually sitting- around money, designed to counter Florio's heavy support among black voters by discouraging them from turning out on Election Day. As Rollins told the journalists, "We went into black churches and we basically said to ministers who had endorsed Florio, 'Do you have a special project?' And they said, 'We've already endorsed Florio.' We said, 'That...
Animal he would love to be: I've always been partial to monkeys. I volunteered for the Sacramento Public Library and dressed up as Curious George. I felt so at home in that monkey suit. Oh, and I love bananas. One time there were no bananas at breakfast so I asked for them...