Word: directed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...with the rest split cleanly between the two candidates, though Schumer's support may be slipping. Turnout will decide the contest. As little as 50% of the electorate is likely to vote--so which side will show up in force? D'Amato has more money for phone banks and direct-mail appeals; Schumer is counting on what's left of New York labor to pull voters, especially in the five boroughs, where Democrats outnumber Republicans 5 to 1. He needs a huge turnout there--and in upstate cities like Buffalo--to offset D'Amato's relative strength in the suburbs...
...tobacco companies, fearing that Prop 10 could set a precedent for other states, have mobilized a Committee Against Unfair Taxes, which is expected to spend more than $20 million for television ads and direct mail. "You know it's easy to vote against tobacco," coos a comely blond from her suburban kitchen in one TV spot. "But if you're against higher taxes and bigger bureaucracy, vote no on Prop 10." Last week, tobacco companies were busy faxing around an endorsement from the Los Angeles Times' political columnist. "So Big Brother, what's next?" wrote George Skelton. "A surtax...
Another aid provision--announced in the Higher Education Act, but funded through this measure--is the ability of students at Harvard and other "direct lending"schools to refinance their student loans at ahistorically low interest rate...
...Direct lendingmeans student loans come directly from theUniversity. Students and graduates who want torefinance at the new 7.46 percent interest ratemust do so before the end of January...
...anyone know a woman named Joyce?" I asked the store at large. (My uncle's old roommate hadn't known her last name.) I think she might do acupressure, I explained. No response. What about this man? I continued, again flashing my picture. Still no recognition, though they did direct me to an acupuncture clinic down the street--in staid Groton, of all places...