Word: contributors
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...admitted that some zoning rules might have been stretched when the eatery was approved and pledged to review them before Copeland proceeds with construction of a hotel on the two floors above the restaurant. "I never bribed anybody in my life," Copeland declared. Asked if he was a campaign contributor to Mayor Marc Morial, he said he couldn't remember. "But I did have a party for him on my yacht...
...sheer enormity of this issue cries out for it to be addressed in a more serious public forum. The second largest contributor to the Republican National Party the past year was Philip Morris, which gave $1.9 million. With the prominence of the nicotine and tobacco debate, and the increasing contentiousness between lawmakers and corporations that produce tobacco, surely the industry shouldn't have that kind of sway over the Republican party. In fact, the practice is so widespread that recently some Republican Congress members made it clear that they would not listen to any contributors to the Democratic party...
...social minuet, it was really part of a high-tech operation situated not far from the Oval Office and used to track and nurture potential donors to the President's re-election effort. Kaye's name was entered into a secret White House database under the designation "major contributor," a status befitting the $137,000 he gave to the Democratic cause last campaign. The filing system, dubbed WhoDB for White House Office Data Base, was used by Clinton's campaign team to stay on top of donors and provide them with enough emoluments to keep them feeding the party...
...globe should need another umbrous island, anchored by one man's imagination halfway between Iceland and Greenland, is not something novelist (and former TIME contributor) Brad Leithauser bothers to explain. If you don't like Freeland, the gray and chilly outpost of which he is the sole curator of history, customs and current events, then chase your moonbeams in Lake Wobegon or your copperheads in Yoknapatawpha County...
...Senior writer Richard Lacayo, contributor Lance Morrow and correspondents White, Elaine Lafferty and James Willwerth shared the general-news prize for the Oct. 9, 1995, cover story, "O.J. and Race: Will the Verdict Split America?," which assessed the escalating racial rhetoric surrounding the Simpson trial...