Word: glenns
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...asked for help from the five Senators, all beneficiaries of direct and indirect contributions from him: Arizona Democrat Dennis DeConcini (who had received $55,000), Arizona Republican John McCain ($125,433), Ohio Democrat John Glenn ($234,000), California Democrat Alan Cranston ($897,000) and Michigan Democrat Donald Riegle, chairman of the Senate Banking Committee ($76,100). In addition, according to the Arizona Republic, DeConcini's top aides received more than $50 million in real estate loans. Keating also gave McCain and his wife trips, including vacations in the Bahamas valued at $13,400, which McCain paid for after they became...
...April 9, 1987, all five Senators met with bank examiners summoned from San Francisco to DeConcini's office. DeConcini is quoted in notes from the meeting telling the examiners that "actions of yours could injure a constituent." Glenn said, "To be blunt, you should charge them or get off their backs." Riegle asked, "Where are the losses?" The federal banking agents pointed out that Lincoln was "flying blind on all of their different loans and investments," that there was no underwriting on most loans, that the bank's practices "violated the law, regulations and common sense" and that...
...five respected U.S. Senators get mixed up with such an operator? In a word, money. They are obsessed by it at the rate of about $10,000 a day -- the amount it takes to fuel a Senate campaign every six years. Glenn, who was carrying a $2 million debt from his 1984 presidential bid, solicited $200,000 from Keating for a political committee he controlled. Cranston ! solicited $850,000 from Keating in 1987 and 1988 for voter-registration drives. In Cranston's tight 1986 Senate race against former Republican Congressman Ed Zschau, Keating gave the California Democratic Party...
...Spectors' car swerves to avoid a boy who has darted out into the road, and nice Michael (James Woods) mutters to his nice wife Linda (Glenn Close), "Some people should not be allowed to have children!" He is voicing a common belief that those who are having the most kids can't raise them, and those who can afford kids aren't having them. O.K. then. Who should raise the first generation of 21st century teenagers? The healthy, efficient yuppies, who just might be able to fit a child into their Filofax schedules? Or the chain-smoking unmarrieds...
...over-bearing detective William Blore, Jeff Branion uses his physical presence skillfully, throwing his theories around in as imposing a manner as he propels his body. And Captain Philip Lombard (Glenn Kiser) highlights the sinister elements that lurk beneath seemingly innocent characters when he defends the abandonment of African soldiers under his command by saying, "Natives don't mind dying; they don't think of it as Europeans...