Word: distorts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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According to Senator Howell Heflin (D-Ala.), the Senate takes "a break whenever somebody has a fundraiser." With fundraising taking on such importance, special interest funds tend to distort the political system. PACs favor incumbents, with 72 percent of their contributions going to those already in office. This way, PACs can obtain more influence per dollar, wasting little on those who are not "safe" contenders for office. Unfortunately, with the average House seat costing $500,000 and a six-year lease on a chair in the Senate Chamber running its occupant around $3 million, challengers, receiving few PAC funds, cannot...
...Africa, runs 2 hr. 34 min.) When Gilliam delivered a streamlined cut that was still six minutes over the limit, Sheinberg determined to withhold the film until Universal minions could prepare their own version: shorter, more "accessible," and with a more "satisfying" ending, which the director believed would fatally distort his film. By this time Gilliam was seeing life imitating Brazil. Like Sam, he was being compromised by a "ruthlessly legal" cadre of apparatchiks. "If I go into Universal and even mention the word art," he said then, "security forces will come and take me away...
...Crimson has every right to express its liberal opinions straight out of the Dark Ages. But you should draw the line at deliberate insults aimed at individual students or at attempts to distort the facts so as to ridicule undergraduate organizations. I found your latest foray in the former category, in which you referred to me as "SyKahane," deeply offensive. Meier Kahane is a militant racist who has called for the expulsion or extermination of Arab Moslems in Israel. As a Moslem and a national from the Middle East, I find the label of Kahane comparable to referring...
...American SDI. We are making much greater progress than we anticipated. The barriers we saw to progress are crumbling. For one thing, we are making very great progress with being able to focus and project laser beams through conditions that used to distort them in the atmosphere. One reason this is expensive is that we are pursuing about five different methods of trying to destroy missiles outside the atmosphere. We are not working down one path and giving that up if it does not work. I think if the Soviets see that we are obdurate and not going...
...TASS, Izvestiya and the other Soviet outlets undoubtedly would fill and color their summit coverage with the overheard irreverences of American correspondents chortling over Reagan's malapropisms, Nancy's dresses and Secretary of State George Shultz's tennis. That's the lingo of freedom that Soviet eavesdroppers love to distort. The U.S. team, wise in the ways of media, suggested the Soviets give them similar privileges. The issue is on hold while the Soviets go back to the manual...