Word: launching
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...President and too easy for moneyed citizens to buy influence among the presidential candidates whom they support. In December 1971 Congress passed a simple rider to the Revenue Act that, while not solving all the problems, could at least provide candidates with the funds to launch a campaign without pressure from private backers. Under the bill, each taxpayer can now direct the Government to send $1 of his taxes to a presidential campaign fund-at no cost to himself-by making a simple check mark on his tax forms, indicating whether the money should go to the Republicans, Democrats, Independents...
Died. Tim Buck, 82, leader of Canada's Communist Party from 1929 to 1962; of a stroke; in Cuernavaca, Mexico. The British-born son of a Tory pub owner. Buck immigrated to Canada in 1912 and helped launch the party nine years later. He faithfully toed the Kremlin line on everything from Stalin's prewar purges to the 1956 invasion of Hungary. Although the party managed to poll 111,892 votes in a 1945 federal election, the number of Communists in Canada had dwindled to fewer than 6,000 by the time he gave up the leadership...
...loosely organized Graduate Student and Teaching Fellow Union and its weary steering committee surprised almost every member of the Harvard community last week--themselves notwithstanding--and attracted enough people to launch an open-ended strike scheduled to begin Monday morning...
With less than a week remaining until the scheduled walkout, steering committee members decided to launch a momentum-building membership drive to build interest among all members of the community...
...around related events which span a ten-year period of the movement. For example, in the second act, women in Manchester and London at various points in time appear simultaneously, collecting and begging for donations to the movement. The scene culminates with all the women converging on London to launch the political phase of their movement...