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There is, of course, usually no formal deal between PAC's and legislators, just an understanding, but if a dairy association shows up at a candidate's fundraising party with a $5000 check, both the giver and the taker understand that the PAC is not rewarding him for a vote on foreign aid. The lobbyist is quite openly giving the money for a favorable vote on dairy legislation. PACs are throwing around a disproportionate amount of weight in Congress. As long as PACs can give with ease, Congressmen have to play the game and accept the badly needed campaign money...
Santa, in fact, is all over the Locks' shop. There are 10-inch figures of Santa holding a tennis racquet, or slouching over canes. There are Santa yo-yos and candles in the shape of the big red gift-giver. There are Santa hats and Santa pictures, Santa frisbees and Santa mugs and Santa music boxes...
...advise the President-elect on forming a new Administration. Later he served on the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board. Betsy, his wife of 35 years, is the daughter of a socially prominent Los Angeles family and one of Nancy Reagan's closest friends. An inveterate giver of parties, many for charity, she has been crowned "Good Queen Betts"; her consort was dubbed "King Alfred...
...very surprisingly she said yes.' " Spencer's reply: "I'm delighted for you both." Though later he joked: "I wonder what he would have said if I'd turned him down." The father of the bride could not contain his pride: "She is a giver, not a taker, and that is very rare these days. I think Charles is very lucky to have...
...number of Native American students at Harvard have complained to me about the use of the term, "Indian Giver" in your April 18, 1980 article "CARTER BANS ALL TRADE; WARNS MILITARY ACTION NEXT." The term "Indian Giver" is blatantly racist because the meaning it denotes has no basis in fact; mischaracterizes the history of the Federal-Indian relationship; and perpetuates a cruel stereotype. To the contrary, Native Americans are known for keeping their word and for living by their treaties...