Word: campaign
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...year-long cup campaign was also bolstered by first-place finishes in squash, B-league volleyball in both the fall and spring, co-ed soccer and six-foot basketball. Cabot's hockey team finished in second place behind the first-year team, so Cabot earned the first-place cup points for that event...
Last week Johnny Chung, a prominent business leader from Los Angeles, confessed to raising $300,000 illegally for the Democratic National Committee (DNC) during the 1996 elections. Chung, one of the Democratic Party's biggest fundraisers, confessed to taking money from China and funneling it to President Clinton's campaign. And there may be more. According to the New York Times, millions of dollars were channeled from the Chinese government to the Los Angeles bank used by Chung...
...deputations and even an attempted self-immolation by a despairing supporter coaxed her out of a self-imposed week in the political wilderness. Promising that "every drop of my blood belongs to this country," Gandhi galvanized party activists for a head-on battle against opposition attempts to center their campaign for September's election around the issue of her foreign birth. Gandhi's brief resignation had been prompted by three Congress leaders -- subsequently expelled -- echoing this concern. "She has shrewdly used the rebellion in the party to her own advantage," says TIME New Delhi correspondent Maseeh Rahman. "It's built...
...differences between the two major parties, September's election will be all about Sonia Gandhi. The Congress party has used the mythical power of the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty to rally jaded voters, while Vajpayee's Hindu nationalist party has vowed to make Gandhi's origins the centerpiece of its campaign. Get ready for the drama...
...heat on meat plants to make those holiday hot dogs safer for consumers. The Department asked manufacturers to develop plans in the next month to test for the deadly listeria bacteria in frankfurters and other pre-cooked meats; the Department also said it would launch an education campaign urging consumers, especially expectant mothers and the elderly, to thoroughly heat such foods before eating them...