Word: campaigned
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Every Sunday evening some 11 million U.S. households watch the Fox network's raunchy hit, Married . . . With Children. But a letter-writing campaign by just one shocked viewer in suburban Detroit has prompted several national advertisers to yank their commercials from the blue-collar sitcom...
...dope. The rest of us just made it." He did more than just make it. A magna cum laude graduate of the University of Maryland, the Chicago investment counselor recently co- founded the Harold Washington Foundation. Named for the late Chicago mayor whom Glover once served as campaign manager, it provides grants to blacks for education, health care and the arts. "The black middle class has not done enough to keep the door of opportunity open," Glover insists. "Many of them try to assuage their conscience with an annual check to the Urban League or the N.A.A.C.P...
...look at who gains from 1-2-3. Fred Meyer, who calls himself the author of Prop 1-2-3, may certainly be motivated by a personal ideology linking freedom with owning a condo, but most other supporters ($56,000 strong, according to the 1988 State Campaign Finance Report) are motivated by profit. Not surprisingly, among the list of financial contributors who helped get this condo bill on the ballot are some of Cambridge's most notorious landlords...
Bush repeated his earlier accusations that Tower had been unfairly treated during his losing campaign for confirmation, but expressed an eagerness not to dwell on the rejection. He said Democratic leaders in the Senate "had given their word" that they were willing to cooperate with the new administration...
...even as Bush reached out, Vice President Dan Quayle turned up the heat and accused Senate Democrats of engaging in "a McCarthyite mudslinging campaign" against Tower and waging an "assault on the powers of the presidency...