Word: dike
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...different ways," predicts University of Virginia veteran campaign-finance watcher Larry Sabato. Companies, trade groups and unions would fund more grassroots organizing, phone banks, voter-registration drives and ads, among other things, he asserts. Assuming that ever creative political pros will always find--or make--a hole in the dike through which more money can pour, some argue that trying to limit contributions isn't the best approach. Yale law professor Ian Ayres and Stanford economist Jeremy Bulow proposed last year in an article in the Stanford Law Review that donors should be allowed to give as much money...
...arrested," and she replied, "You may go on and do so." As a child, I didn't understand how doing nothing had caused so much activity, but I recognized the template: David slaying the giant Goliath, or the boy who saved his village by sticking his finger in the dike. And perhaps it is precisely the lure of fairy-tale retribution that colors the lens we look back through. Parks was 42 years old when she refused to give up her seat. She has insisted that her feet were not aching; she was, by her own testimony, no more tired...
...Lazutkin said simply. "It was Spektr." Within half an hour, Lazutkin and Foale cleared the cables, unstowed the hatch and slammed the module shut. At one point Foale held the hatch in place by hand like the Dutch boy at the dike. Mir's hemorrhaging at last stopped, but how badly the ship had been hurt was impossible to tell...
...Finger In The Dike...
...signed personally) at 14.5% just to cover interest payments on the original Citizens loan. Existing revenues weren't nearly sufficient to cover interest expenses, which kept rising as notes were renewed at higher rates and new notes taken on. So far, the partners had kept their fingers in the dike by continuing to borrow from friendly bankers or the bank controlled by McDougal. But this was little more than pouring good money after bad. If the lending dried up and all the notes were called at once, the Clintons and McDougals faced a financial crisis just as Clinton was plotting...