Word: guests
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Well-publicized plant visits by Gore and the department's environmental cleanup czar, Thomas Grumbly, sent its stock sharply higher. Knight helped land a $460,000 contract for the company to demonstrate its toxic waste neutralizing technology at a government laboratory, congressional investigators say. And Haney was a frequent guest at the White House and the Vice President's mansion. He, his firm and its officers raised or contributed $130,000 towards the Democratic Party and the Clinton-Gore re-election campaign managed by Knight...
...sweetheart deal had its roots in a June 1996 fund raiser at the palatial San Francisco home of Senator Dianne Feinstein and her financier husband Richard Blum. The $25,000-a-couple dinner has already gained notoriety because of its guest list, a power lineup including President Clinton, top party and Administration officials, even Asian-American fund raiser John Huang. Given all those luminaries, hardly anyone noticed the presence of Judith Vasquez, a thirtysomething Filipina developer, who pledged $100,000 for a chance to be photographed with the President. As a foreigner, she couldn't legally contribute to his party...
...title track, with its punky-paced, unrestrained musical journey in Hanley's car, again highlights Polce and emphasizes the talented band members--Greg McKenna and Michael Eisenstein on guitar and Scott Riebling on bass--and guest organist Jed Parish. With an attractive female lead, the men sometimes get pushed to the background, but they are essential in completing the perfect pop rock sound of Letters To Cleo, especially on a song like "GO!". With Hanley's ecstatic voice, the band's instruments wailing with heed to precise dynamics and a circuslike organ bopping along to the automobile antics, the song...
Gumbel does not believe in pursuing guests hotly either. He refers, with a touch of disdain, to the moment in 1995 when journalists were competing for an on-air interview with Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley. "Diane, Oprah, Barbara, Stone all struggled for that interview," Gumbel notes. "When one of them lands it, to what extent has his or her capacity to possibly engender the person's anger been compromised? By agreeing to be on, that person has in a sense granted the reporter a favor." He continues, "Will I make a phone call [to help secure a guest...
...lure. You'll call someone, and they'll say, 'You're the fifth person who's called me.' There's an astonishing level of sophistication too. People are in on the mechanism. They're like, 'Are you picking me up [for the show in a limo]?'" Winning a guest, adds senior editorial producer Nancy Duffy, "ultimately boils down to that person's sense of nostalgia, who they've watched on TV and who they think they'll click with...