Word: efforts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...could win them over. Robert Bennett, the Ohio party chairman, recalls the early feelers from Rove that summer. "They weren't ruling it in; they weren't ruling it out. But they were leaving the definite impression that they were--how shall I say this--heading for a presidential effort...
...center of the recruitment effort was Michigan's Engler, a two-term Governor who had spent much of the 1990s turning the Republican Governors Association from a paper tiger into an organization that could raise $20 million in a single cycle. During 1998, Engler was the Republican who worried most about how the G.O.P. of Gingrich and Trent Lott had grown too detached from Americans' lives. "A lot of us decided he was the best candidate," Engler told TIME last week. "We wanted to be able to work with someone early on." Though careful to be discreet, Engler privately began...
Bush matched this effort by appearing as a guest star at carefully chosen fund raisers in key states. It was an old-fashioned way to do favors--and broaden his financial network. He and his father campaigned for Jim Gilmore in Virginia in 1997; the $500,000 take stunned even Gilmore's aides. There was a growing curiosity about this popular Governor with the big halo; organizers and activists and consultants wanted to see for themselves whether he had the right moves. In May 1998 he went to Ohio fund raisers for gubernatorial candidate Bob Taft and helped raise...
...Travel Report, about 20% of traveling parents will borrow even more trouble by including grandparents in the family vacation, while others will join the growing trend of squeezing extra mileage out of business trips by bringing the kids along. Says a road-weary mom: "Sometimes it takes so much effort to get where we're going that it's more like a change of venue than a vacation." But it doesn't have to be that way. This summer, thanks to a raft of online advice, kid-centered guidebooks and nifty new products, taking the kids is easier than...
Bailing out Russia makes almost no financial sense, but it matters a lot politically. That may be why nobody appears overly surprised -- or concerned -? that the country?s parliament, the Duma, on Thursday rejected a key package of economic reforms. The proposed reforms would have been an effort to meet the preconditions for a $4.5 billion IMF loan required to roll over Russia's debts to the international institution. "This was entirely expected," says TIME Moscow correspondent Andrew Meier. "It?s a lame-duck Duma voting down conditions agreed to in April by a government that no longer exists...