Word: dump
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Harshbarger attempted to make the ethical issuea reason for voters to dump Cellucci...
...none of those extravagances really made him happy. So in 1989 Monaghan took a two-year leave from Domino's to devote himself to Catholic charities and soon began to dump his toys. (The Tigers went to Little Caesars owner Michael Ilitch in 1992 for $85 million.) "Most of the time I was buying things to get attention, to have people notice me," Monaghan once remarked. "That's the sin of pride, the worst sin of all, and I'm the guiltiest person...
...limited his campaign spending and refused soft money; he also discouraged ads from advocacy groups attacking Neumann--positions consistent with the campaign-finance-reform bill he sponsored with Arizona's John McCain. Neumann, meanwhile, matched Feingold's pledge to hold down spending, but he happily allowed the G.O.P. to dump soft money into the race and to pulverize Feingold with two months' worth of blistering attack ads. By the time Feingold aired his first response in September, paid for with hard money from his own campaign, the average Wisconsin voter had already seen 20 ads against him. Many are clever...
Another day, another Clinton document dump on the Internet. This time, it's the dregs from the Paula Jones case. The not-so-surprising news is that the good parts have already leaked -- which is why Judge Susan Webber Wright said she was releasing the papers in the first place. Still, for aficionados, there are a few new morsels. The largest: President Clinton testified he had not had sex with any woman who was an employee of the federal government or the state of Arkansas since 1986, the time frame specified by the judge. Conspicuous by its absence: the Clinton...
...soap opera and slasher film. After Solondz's scabrous little preteen angstathon, Welcome to the Dollhouse, earned more than $4 million on a budget of $800,000, October Films sponsored his next, $3 million project. But October was pressured this summer by its corporate parent, Universal Pictures, to dump the film. It will be released, unrated, by its own production company...