Word: effort
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Herman, Republicans want to know how much she knew about all the telephone tag being played between her Office of Public Liaison at the White House and the fund raisers at the D.N.C. Herman was in charge of "outreach" to various ethnic groups--an effort that White House documents show included fund raising in some cases. Republican Senators are particularly interested in Herman's relationship with Huang, the D.N.C. fund raiser who once worked for the Lippo Group of Indonesia and who made 76 visits to the White House, sometimes to see Clinton, sometimes to see Ickes and sometimes...
...White House courtship of Kaye was never casual. While disguised as a 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...
...database effort was started in late 1993 under the direction of Marsha Scott, a deputy presidential assistant. She was as guarded as the architect of a Pentagon "black project," working in a locked room of an Old Executive Office Building suite with a private entrance. In a confidential 1994 memo to Hillary Clinton, she argued against competitive bids for the system because they would throw it "open to public scrutiny and inquiry." The database was considered so sensitive that as few as three people were originally expected to have full access...
...bureaucrat, Franklin S. Reeder of the Office of Administration, made a valiant effort to keep at least the WhoDB Christmas card list "pure" by making sure it was beyond the reach of party fund raisers. But Reeder lost. Records show that more than 65,000 cards were sent to D.N.C. and Clinton campaign donors, perhaps in the hope they would send back cash...
...senses are underactive and provide them with too little information. To be effective, then, says George Washington University's Greenspan, treatment must target the underlying condition, protecting some children from disorienting noises and lights, providing others with attention-grabbing stimulation. But when parents and therapists collaborate in an intensive effort to reach these abnormal brains, writes Greenspan in a new book, The Growth of the Mind (Addison-Wesley, 1997), three-year-olds who begin the descent into the autistic's limited universe can sometimes be snatched back...