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...there was one social program that congressional Democrats could exploit as a campaign rallying cry, it was child care. With elections looming this fall, they should have been in a position to trumpet their efforts to help working mothers, 75% of whom tell pollsters that they are unable to find adequate care for their children while they are on the job. Instead, House Democrats have allowed the first nationwide child-care system to become mired in committee turf battles for six months. As Olympia Snowe, a Maine Republican, tartly observed last week, "If this bill were an actual child, Congress...
Direct-mail fund raising also leads groups to create or exploit bogeymen, to personalize the issue. Ted Kennedy's dream may have died, but it lives on in the nightmares of thousands of conservative donors. Liberal causes have lost Ed Meese and Robert Bork, but are trying (a bit desperately) to make do with David Duke, the former Klansman in the Louisiana state legislature...
...William & Mary] can be much less stable than we are," Harvard Co-Captain Nicole Rival said. "We have to exploit their negative attitudes--when they get down on themselves and become psychotic...
...They do have weaknesses in their defense which we should be able to exploit," said Mike Murphy, Harvard's All-Ivy defender...
...women's groups accused RJR of targeting uninformed young women for death. Lung cancer among women has jumped more than fivefold in the past 20 years, and now surpasses breast cancer as the leading cause of death. "I cannot understand how any self-respecting company could seek to exploit so deliberately a group of young women," said Molly Yard, president of the National Organization for Women. Despite the furor, RJR is going ahead with plans to test Dakota...