Word: coffers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...market be free. Condon, the only state attorney general to drop off the Microsoft case, won't say how much the company donated to the group. But he isn't embarrassed about the money--or about the $3,500 he solicited and got from Microsoft for his own election coffer after he dropped his state's lawsuit. "I was glad to get it," he says...
...Reform Party, which has more than 10 million dollars in federal matching funds in its coffer, will probably field a candidate in 2000 the hope of becoming stronger...
...intended to be the world's largest hydroelectric dam. Already, mammoth earthworks on both banks of the construction site have begun to constrict the flow of the river where it gushes forth from the Xiling Gorge. Over the next 14 years, if all goes as planned, first an earthen coffer dam and then a 200-yd.-high concrete spillway and adjacent set of ship-lifting locks will block the swirling channel, transforming the Three Gorges into a single deep and currentless reservoir. Covering everything from ancient temples to contemporary slag heaps, the water will flood 28,000 acres of farmland...