Word: kickback
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...campaign manager, Nelson Gross, former State Treasurer Joseph M. McCrane and former Secretary of State Paul J. Sherwin. Gross and McCrane were indicted for advising fat-cat contributors to write off their campaign contributions on their tax returns as business expenses. Sherwin was convicted for seeking a kickback from a highway contractor...
...campaign. Fatcat contributors had been advised by leading Republicans to write off their donations on their tax returns as business expenses. This disclosure came on top of the conviction six months ago of the Governor's closest political confidant, Secretary of State Paul Sherwin, who had sought a kickback from a highway contractor. Cahill, who had seemed a shoo-in for reelection this year, is now in trouble...
Terry Straus, My ex-roomate, and my friend; Shouts of kickback, payolat so what. Terry's third trip to the Dunster library for forty minutes of voice and guitar. Twice I sang with him, and both times I was terrible, so I don't sing with him anymore. Terry's not an interpreter, he just sings other people's songs. But he's got a good voice, and he plays well, so he manager to bring it off quite well. His patter's not to be believed, and they tell me he's working on an original...
Last week's Canadian airlift was a model of prudent planning. Ottawa flew in 25 immigration and medical officers to process immigration applicants, expected to number 5,000. When Ugandan Dictator Idi Amin Dada insisted that Canada pay East African Airways a kickback of 20% on every fare, the Canadians decided to make the airlift free. Explained one indignant diplomat: "We would rather pay for the whole thing ourselves than pay ransom to Amin...
...money and media points than the others-the contest can be equalized if he lands on a square that requires him to draw special cards, one of which might send him to the laryngitis ward, similar to Monopoly's jail. Other cards may trigger Cabinet shakeups or a kickback scandal. Play continues until one candidate collects 270 electoral votes. MR. PRESIDENT (3M Co.; $8.95) is a game for two to four players who campaign for popular or electoral votes. According to the directions, each party fields a candidate for President and Vice President and "attempts to win the election...