Word: checkbooks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...time for accounting to become more centralized. Perhaps Harvard should require that its campus groups work with a single bank, which can set up guidelines for check-writing and other financial reports. Balancing a checkbook may not seem that difficult, but many campus organizations look like small businesses at times, businesses that have an often overwhelming flow of payments that need to be processed. The bank could even offer training for newly elected treasurers. Many an eager but inexperienced club member is thrust into this position so that older members can concentrate on the "visionary" aspects of running their projects...
With serious presidential contenders needing $20 million for the primaries alone, a candidate's most reliable friend, Phil Gramm once quipped, is "ready money." And there's none readier than what's in your own checkbook. Forbes says he is willing to spend $25 million. Perot shelled out more than $60 million...
Privately, Clinton Administration officials were ecstatic about Gingrich's comeuppance. The heart of the White House objection to the Republican budget plan is that it favors the rich, as well as "checkbook lobbying," all of which the FEC's charges against Gingrich seemed to buttress. Last week, after three days of negotiation, neither side was making any concessions to reach agreement on a seven-year budget deal. Said Armey: "We have not gotten the President to talk to us in any substantive way. They are still pursuing a strategy of failure." Responded Leon Panetta, White House chief of staff...
...Hotel across from the White House. Of this offer and others in the Barbour letter, R.N.C. spokeswoman Mary Crawford says, "That's just sort of the way it's done." That may be exactly why the Republicans of Newt's revolution are unlikely soon to rewrite the laws governing checkbook politics...
...frank, it was a mess," Blais said. "We were bouncing checks all the time first semester last year, and nobody ever balanced the checkbook...