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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wants to ban soft money contributions, which, he says, grant special interests the power to bankroll political parties and their agendas. Though critics counter that soft money donations are a form of protected political speech, McCain sees them as antithetical to democracy...
...Mary opened up the season in spectacular form," Coach Frank Haggerty said. "She is going to have a very good season, I predict. She is very focused and in the best shape of her life at this time of year...
Stewart convinced several Houses to enact some form of UKA. Quincy was by far the most ambitious, and became the only House to allow non-Quincy residents to swipe in 24 hours a day, seven days a week...
...size and funding of the Department of Education, heresy to social conservatives, who would prefer to see the agency abolished. But if a public school fails to meet standards after three years, he would cut off its federal funds and turn the money over to parents in the form of vouchers, allowing them to send their kids to private school. He satisfies the right by praising conservative Supreme Court stalwarts Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas but sticks by his pledge not to use a pro-life "litmus test" in picking court nominees. And even as he promises tax cuts...
...calls his empire an Internet zaibatsu. It is a reference to the pre-World War II forerunners of a corporate form better known as keiretsu, those vertically integrated manufacturing and trading cartels that gave Japan Inc. its fearsome reputation in the 1980s. Son doesn't want to own his companies outright, or to run them. He aims to gain implicit control with a 20%-to-30% stake in each and to build a web of mutual cross-investments with sales, marketing and supply ties. "I want us to be No. 1 in every area," says Son. In five years...