Word: building
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...despite the hopeful signs of last year's effort, the Crimson could not build on either that victory or on its recent triumphs over Yale and Brown the past weekend, and saw its overall Beanpot record fall...
With no limits on contributions or expenditures, candidates regularly build up war chests that amount to ten times their annual $33,732 salaries. Santa Monica Assemblyman Tom Hayden holds the known record for expenditures, at more than $2 million in 1982. Most of the money comes from political-action committees, corporations and labor unions seeking influence. Says former Assembly Speaker Robert Monagan: "The only way to really participate now in state government is by writing a check...
...narrow legal issue is whether the Marcoses or their political friends have siphoned U.S. economic or military aid to build private nest eggs. While Solarz has hinted strongly at the possibility, he has failed so far to produce evidence of wrongdoing. "Solarz has devoted 100 hours to the issue," acting Foreign Minister Pacifico Castro said last week in Washington, "and has not found a single iota of evidence that would stand the test of judicial process...
Speaking in the flag-bedecked reception room of Lille's city hall, Thatcher declared: "It is a great day. Today means we are embarking with determination to build this link. It is not only the link itself. It means something symbolic between Britain and France." Added Mitterrand: "This is an act not only of goodwill but a grand and grandiose vision which will provide great benefits for our people. France is very happy...
...same time, Muhammad was trying to build diplomatic ties between Saudi Arabia and the Soviet Union, a long-term aim of the Kremlin's foreign policy. Western diplomats tended to believe that Moscow had felt comfortable with him and was dismayed at the speed with which South Yemen dissolved into tribal warfare...