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...style. All he would have to do was declare his candidacy, and the money would have started pouring in from well-heeled liberal well-wishers. Four years ago, that might have worked. But now the fat cats have been cut off-unless they want to break the law. The lean cats are growing scarcer and leaner all the time. Says Feldman: "It used to be fairly easy to find five people who would give $20,000 each. It is much, much harder to find 100 people who will give...
...California, New York, Illinois, Massachusetts and New Hampshire. But a series of dinners organized in New York on Jan. 22, Bayh's 48th birthday, netted only $50,000. If Bayh has any hope of surviving the costly primaries, he is going to have to bag a lot more lean cats...
Prof. Harvey C. Mansfield '53, chairman of the Government Department, intimated in December that he was not at all certain that Kearns would get tenure, "You don't have tenure until you have it." Moreover, he added, "These are lean years. Many associate professors will not become tenured professors this year." Although he refused to specify when Kearns's tenure would be voted on, Mansfield hinted that there might be a special meeting at the end of January...
...Civic Center, around an elegant open bar in the Royal Roost hideaway and at hors d'oeuvre-covered tables seemingly secure behind amber one-way glass, just that prospect--Carter's potential for "sweeping the country"--was the talk of paunchy potential donors, paunchier Rhode Island political hacks and lean-with-ambition Carter staff aides alike...
...church has 22,000 active members, and Hyles reigns like a benevolent autocrat with a $4.5 million-a-year budget. His salary is a lean $11,000, and he says he plows his substantial book earnings (one of Hyles' 22 books, How To Rear Children, has already brought in over $80,000) back into the ministry. One recent Sunday morning he asked his rapt congregation: "When God decided to make the biggest church in the world, who did he choose to build it? He said, 'I think I'll use old Hyles. He's the crookedest...