Word: caucus
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Dole is not yet the Republican nominee, but he's got the timing right. The schedule of primaries and caucuses has never been so compressed. In just 44 days between Iowa's 1996 caucus on Feb. 12 and California's primary on March 26, about 70% of the Republican delegates will be chosen. During that burst of contests, everything will happen so fast that candidates will have little time for mid-course corrections. Like it or not, that means the real primary season is starting right...
...those who can't seem to get enough shear madness, but have had enough of the "Contract with America," the Women's Caucus for Art has a solution. The Caucus is sponsoring a nation-wide "art project" to protest proposed cuts to National Endowment for the Arts funding...
...defend the NEA from Newt Gingrich's snipping shears, send a pair of your own to your senator or representative. The Caucus suggests that you take a pair of plastic scissors, glue them shut so that they won't cut, and write "No Cuts to the Arts" on them. The scissors can be sent through the U.S. Mail in a plastic baggie with a mailing label taped to the outside. Be sure to include a note stating your name and address, and that you are a registered voter...
...committee would be required to give the same amount of money to each house and four times as much to the first-year caucus...
Garza, along with Grove and Hillary Anger '93,were instrumental in starting a women's caucus onthe Council which sought both to establish afemale network and offer younger female Councilmembers support. Their efforts were met withdistrust and suspicion from Council officials,most notably Chair Mike E. Beys '94 and Hanselman,who accused Garza of using the group as a foil forher political ambitions. (Beys refused to commenton the accusations for this article.) Hanselmaneven went so far as to write an editorial in TheCrimson accusing the female trio of "sour grapes"for having collectively lost four elections...