Word: gave
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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McDade misused his House position in a way that Frank never did, and he hasn't received one-thousandth of the publicity. Frank paid the prostitute out of personal funds and only gave him Congressional privileges when performing legitimate business...
...media market rife with three tabloid newspapers and half-a-dozen trashy local television news shows gobbled up the appalling incident and gave New York what they thought it wanted to see--the final showdown in a racial turf war that nobody could win, while ignoring the very real underlying problems which the incident represented...
...then appointed the selfproclaimed guru of free-market economics in Argentina, Alvaro Alsogaray, to be his leading economic adviser. Ignoring the opposition of the telephone unions, Menem gave Alsogaray's daughter the task of privatizing the state-run telephone company that has for years been ridiculed by Argentines, who have a host of horror stories to tell about how tough it is to make routine local calls...
Besides, I was a fair-weather fan more than a political zealot. I lived on the illusion that the Redskins gave equal time to all political persuasions and would invite Ted Kennedy to speak very soon...
Gibbs took the final step by leading protests against The Last Temptation of Christ. How many Redskins fans said, "I'd love to see this movie, but damnit, our beloved football coach gave it two thumbs down...