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This also isn't a trash-the-band column (although I might write one when the band starts the "goalie sieve-funnel-vacuum-black hole-you just suck" chant in the middle of a close hockey game...
...compared with just 39% three months ago. The son of former Michigan Governor and 1968 presidential candidate George Romney, young Romney made his millions during the '80s as a venture capitalist in Boston. He argues that while his businesses have helped create 10,000 jobs, Kennedy's activities only funnel in federal grants: that is, funds derived from taxes. "Ted has never had a job in 32 years," Romney charges. "He has no idea how to create jobs, except with government money...
...former head of United Way funnel money to a mistress...
...system stinks," majority leader George Mitchell complained after a vote to close debate on the measure failed 52-46, far short of the 60 needed to forestall a G.O.P. walkout. The bill would have put a new $6,000-per-election-cycle cap on money political-action committees could funnel to a congressional candidate. But Republicans argued that another provision, federal matching money for challengers, amounted to a welfare program for politicians...
Nixon's first term included sweeping innovations, often surprisingly liberal. He was the first President in years to cut military spending; the first to tie Social Security increases to the cost of living. He instituted "revenue sharing" to funnel $6 billion a year in federal tax money back to the states and cities. He signed the act lowering the voting age to 18. And he benefited from Kennedy's decision to go to the moon. When Neil Armstrong landed there in 1969, Nixon somewhat vaingloriously declared that "this is the greatest week in the history of the world since...