Word: fatted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...grounds to appoint an independent counsel. The fact that everyone from editorial-page editors to Trent Lott to Common Cause reformers was hollering for one meant little to her. Reno's critics were reading the independent-counsel statute; she was reading the criminal code. And she saw a big, fat exception to the law making it a crime to raise money on federal property. The loophole opened in 1979, when Congress inadvertently tightened the definition of "contribution" from money donated for "any political purpose" to the much narrower one of money donated "for the purpose of influencing any election...
...have to be mad to be tantalized. Being human will do. Think of it: what Dolly--fat, insensible Dolly--promises is not quite a second chance at life (you don't reproduce yourself; you just reproduce a twin) but another soul's chance at your life. Every parent tries to endow his child with the wisdom of his own hard-earned experience. Here is the opportunity to pour all the accumulated learning of your life back into a new you, to raise your exact biological double, to guide your very flesh through a second existence...
...aversion to dialing for dollars, managed to busy himself with other things. The next stop for officials looking for a willing fund raiser for the mini telethon: the office of Vice President Gore. No problem. One hour and 10 vice-presidential phone calls later, the DNC treasury was fat and happy...
...odds against achieving full modernization without losing political control are daunting. The party's one remaining claim to legitimacy rests on its ability to deliver sustained economic growth and rising incomes. Once people are rich and fat enough, they begin to demand a say in their own governance. What no one can predict is how long China can continue to achieve economic advances without modifying--or being forced to modify--its repressive political system...
...happened to tune in to a CNN program that included as one of its guests Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, a leading opponent of campaign-finance reform. In dismissing the notion that the cost of a political campaign these days is bound to make politicians beholden to fat-cat contributors, Senator McConnell said Americans spend less on political campaigns than they do on yogurt. By chance, I was eating a container of yogurt when he said that. Blueberry. Low fat...