Word: funded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Flynn's low-budget campaign intends to use the remnants of his once mighty grass-roots operation to get out the vote. But the residual goodwill from his 10 years as mayor is ebbing. After he left office, two of his top aides were convicted of fund-raising-related crimes. And Flynn's tenure as an ambassador earned him a reputation for erratic and often unstatesmanlike behavior in Washington and Rome. After the Globe published an eyewitness account of him appearing drunk in the late afternoon, Flynn went on 60 Minutes to rebut the charges. Now he dismisses the controversy...
...Gore thought vacationing in Hawaii would shelter him from Washington woes, he was sadly mistaken. As new evidence emerges in the case of the mysterious fund-raising phone calls, the Veep is once again in danger of finding his very own Ken Starr yapping at his heels. Justice Department investigators have turned up a 1995 memo from a senior Gore aide indicating that he and his boss discussed ways of diverting Democratic Party soft-money contributions into the Clinton-Gore reelection fund -- an apparent contravention of campaign finance laws...
...could steer them toward one of the five U.S. service academies, where an appointment comes almost entirely at taxpayers' expense, or toward Berea or the Webb Institute, where tuition is free. Or you could get a job with Wilson Greatbatch Ltd. in Clarence, N.Y., which has an education fund that pays the full freight for company employees and their children. But chances are, those aren't options, in which case all this advice just might be worth a degree in something...
...wife Karen, known as the Trading Goddess before she retired from professional investing, happened to drop by the hedge fund that I manage on Wednesday to see what all the commotion was about. As I sat stunned by the decline, she eagerly flipped through the charts looking for bargains. I told her not to waste her time--the market was in free fall...
Glenn: There are a lot of things I won't miss, like fund raising, which is a stinking, miserable way to run your life. Some of the people I'll miss. But I'm looking forward to not having my life set by bells and lights and responsibilities here...