Word: kickoff
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Senior tailback Kweli Thompson had a good day returning kicks. The Big Green kept him busy all afternoon; Thompson returned five kickoffs for 77 yards, including a long return of 24 yards. Luckily for Dartmouth, freshman Troy Jones did not play; Jones is currently ranked eighth in the Ivy League in kickoff returns, averaging 18-yards per return...
...There were definitely people in Cambridgeport who I hadn't met earlier who were very supportive," he said. "I was glad they actually came out to the kickoff and contributed to my campaign...
...attacked the music, movie, television and advertising industries for "poisoning" young people with "destructive messages of casual violence and even more casual sex." Senator Dole does not think censorship is the answer. "The solution lies closer to home, with the American people," he said during his week-long campaign kickoff tour. "Shame is a powerful tool; we should use it." TIME congressional correspondent Karen Tumulty says it first became clear that Dole wasleaning a little rightwardyesterday, when he pledged not to raise taxes. "This is a long way from the days when Dole was criticizing supply-side economics," she says...
...camps getting to $20 million? The preferred forum is the large, $1,000-a-head event at a big hotel or convention center, like Gramm's kickoff dinner in Dallas, which raised $4 million. The big events raise the most money, partly because they have the lowest average cost. Thus Alexander's 2,000-person event Monday night in Nashville should bring in $2 million in ticket sales before being offset by $150,000 to $180,000 in expenses. But that is not the bottom line. Because the first $250 of every $1,000 ticket is eligible for federal matching...
...there they go again. A gang of nine Republican hopefuls and hopelesses went up to Manchester for the kickoff dinner at the Holiday Inn and announced that, yes, they are conservative ever and always, my heavens, yes, and are the ones to lift the terrible yoke of government from the people's shoulders, and, no, the words tax increase never cross their lips without a sense of deep personal revulsion, and, yes, they are looking forward to visiting New Hampshire often in the weeks and months ahead. So here we are, back in the dark vale of self-abasement that...