Word: kick-off
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...campaign kick-off event took place on a steamy July afternoon, in a poorly air-conditioned recreation center in Northern Virginia. Small children lounged on swings nearby, splashed in the pool, and pestered the women serving lemonade to political patrons. Several singers opened the meeting; various political figures and one political spouse followed with brief remarks...
Last night, the Inside Edge gave a nationally televised kick-off party at the club Avalon in Boston, but the debut may have been upstaged on campus by a Harvard Lampoon parody of the magazine that was door-dropped to students yesterday...
After Harry introduced Clinton at his presidential-campaign kick-off, the Thomasons thought they would be rooting the Clintons on from a sound stage in Burbank. But when the Governor went into free fall before the first primary, Thomason took off for New Hampshire. He quickly put together two TV shows that introduced local voters to the candidate via a phone-in format, which at the time made some political aides incredulous. "You're gonna put this candidate on live television and actually let people call...
Audience members lauded the performances and said that the evening was a great kick-off to the inauguration events...
Shani Lester '94, a friend of Giannino's who attended his campaign kick-off, says he was very impressed by him. "I was really amazed," says Lester. "I'e never heard any one of any age, but especially my own age, speak so concisely...