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...back to being ignored when I argue that the examination for entrance into political-science graduate programs should be reduced to one question: "It is customary for American corporations to give large campaign donations to both parties competing in an election. Discuss this practice without using the word bribe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ENDLESS CAMPAIGN | 11/18/1996 | See Source »

SENTENCED. GIORGIO ARMANI, 62, fashion designer; to a 20-day suspended jail term under a plea bargain on charges involving an alleged $197,000 bribe to tax police; in Milan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Nov. 4, 1996 | 11/4/1996 | See Source »

QUOTE OF NOTE: "We need a Congressman in Washington who will cut costs rather than bribe us with pork, who will cut spending rather than raise taxes and who will cut the deficit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A GUIDE TO THE CONGRESSIONAL RACES: NORTHERN CALIFORNIA | 11/4/1996 | See Source »

...scale back such programs and look around for more to prune. Most important, Kennedy, in his famous "ask not" quotation and elsewhere, asked the American people to participate in the governing of their country and to make sacrifices for the good of the nation; our politicians believe they must bribe the voters to get elected...

Author: By Sarah J. Schaffer, | Title: Kennedy: Goals 1960 | 9/20/1996 | See Source »

...once a challenge and a bribe. For at the center of Dole's campaign for the next two months will be the economic plan that would cut an average family's taxes by $1,400. Having spent the past two years spilling blood over what spending would have to be cut to help balance the budget and having spent his political life arguing that work has to come before play, Dole spun around and embraced Jack Kemp and his supply-side optimism for reasons more tactical than spiritual. He may still not believe it will work, but he can believe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONVENTION '96: A SPOONFUL OF SUGAR HELPS THE MEDICINE GO DOWN | 8/26/1996 | See Source »

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