Word: gripping
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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THOSE SAME LEGISLATORS, however, can act to release money's grip on them. A first step would be to act on an election financing bill sponsored by Congressman David Obey (D-Wis.) and Thomas Railsoack (R-III.). This proposal would limit the total amount a Congressional candidate could receive from a PAC to $70,000 and limit individual contributions a PAC could give to $3000. The legislation would limit to some degree the impact of individual PACs, by preventing them from contributing to as many legislators and therefore dominating whole committees or forming voting blocs. This would be a good...
...callow, rigorous hero, 39 R.S.C. actors played 150 parts; they set the scene and moved the scenery; they patrolled the rafters and eavesdropped on intimacies. Everywhere in this complex living organism a sense of theatrical community was affirmed, with a dazzling display of stagecraft that never relaxed its grip on the intelligent heart...
...year 1982 was filled with notable events around the globe. It was a year in which death finally pried loose Leonid Brezhnev's frozen grip on the Soviet Union, and Yuri Andropov, the cold-eyed ex-chief of the KGB, took command. It was a year in which Israel's truculent Prime Minister Menachem Begin completely redrew the power map of the Middle East by invading neighboring Lebanon and smashing the Palestinian guerrilla forces there. The military campaign was a success, but all the world looked with dismay at the thunder of Israeli bombs on Beirut's civilians...
...iron grip remains...
...precisely this cynicism that began to grip Stockman who, as a former peace activist at Michigan State and a John Anderson speech writer at Harvard graduate school, had very much taken the campus-politico route--when the bitter truth about Reaganomics became clear. This cynicism, and a powerful sense of betrayal--reflected in the language of treachery ("The Trojan Horse," "opportunism," "Piranhas") with which he described the Reagan initiative to Greider--ultimately made him frustrated enough to spill his guts to Grieder in their Weekly breakfast meetings...