Word: giver
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...hour-a-day simulations that battle-harden the players--and bundles small contributions to enormous effect. emily's 40,000 members have helped elect five women Senators and 34 women Representatives. The $8.2 million that members contributed to candidates in 1994 made EMILY the year's biggest Democratic giver--and its president a major force...
DreamWorks SKG partner David Geffen would like to be thought of as a political Zen master, a general without troops, a giver without desires. He talks frequently with White House officials, gave $320,000 to Democrats during the past four years and brought Bill Clinton into his Malibu, California, home to dine with key contributors like Steven Spielberg ($200,000) and Jeffrey Katzenberg ($195,000). Yet Geffen told TIME, "I have no active involvement in trying to influence legislation of any kind." He is the President's point man in Hollywood, making connections and keeping the campaign money flowing, even...
...employees, UPS is the world's largest package-delivery service (1994 sales: $19.5 billion). It is also known as a hard-driving company with a worker injury rate about 25% higher than the industry average. The privately held Atlanta company enjoys another distinction: it is the No. 1 corporate giver to congressional election races. UPS poured $2.6 million into House and Senate campaigns in 1993 and 1994 and kicked in nearly $500,000 more in the first seven months of 1995. Now UPS may be after its biggest trophy ever. It is leading a corporate charge to gut enforcement programs...
...search for his former nanny; he believes she is living among the Black Hebrews, a splinter Jewish sect whose adherents (above, with Wonder) claim to be descendants of the lost tribes of Israel. By week's end, however, the singer still hadn't found his long-lost care giver. But the trip wasn't a total loss: Wonder performed concerts in Jerusalem and Ramat Gan and said he was thrilled at "seeing the Holy Land in spirit...
Destroying a soccer field is not like making snow angels. It is like smashing a golden ring into pieces with a sledge hammer. It is like spitting on a gift and throwing it back at the giver. It is mannerless...