Word: campaigned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cola to endorse when they do. In the latest episode of their unending battle to top each other, Coca-Cola and Pepsi are offering fees that almost no one can resist. Last week Pepsi announced that the Material Girl, Madonna, has signed up for a one-year global advertising campaign (her estimated fee: almost $10 million). The title song from the singer's new album, Like a Prayer, will debut in March on Pepsi's prime-time television commercials. Pepsi's team has already starred Michael Jackson, Tina Turner, David Bowie and the Miami Sound Machine...
...aggrandizing touch. In an Alexandria, Va., courtroom, he declared that as a result of his conviction last month on fraud charges, "the vital interests of the United States have been put in jeopardy." A four-time presidential candidate on small-party tickets, he accused the Government of waging a campaign to "eliminate" him from the political scene...
...brought Benazir Bhutto to power. An Amherst College graduate who joined TIME as a reporter-researcher five years ago, he often can't avoid the dark side of his beat. In chronicling another election in Sri Lanka, Desmond spent days trying to make contact with violent Sinhalese rebels, whose campaign of murder frightened many voters away from the polls. Now back in New Delhi, Desmond will continue to keep TIME's eye on the disordered corners of his region, but hopes to spend more time close to his base. That will bring no shortage of hot news though. India...
What troubles other experts, however, is a belief that the Bush campaign promises are irreconciliable with a balanced budget...
...according to Irving, Bush might be better off politically by eating the words of his campaign rather than keeping his promises of no new taxes, considering the economic consequences of continued deficit spending...