Word: lende
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...power of party machinery. This is especially true of Bradley, who reportedly was having trouble raising money even for a Senate bid and whose moves last week had a distinctly extemporaneous feel to them. Nor would his personal style or inclination toward scholarly disquisitions on Third World debt lend themselves to his becoming the high priest of a political movement a la Perot. "He's a man who disdains sound bites. He resists making complex things simple," says Ross K. Baker, a political scientist at Rutgers University...
Huzzahs rang out from Ovitz's new colleagues . Says Robert Iger, president of Cap Cities/abc: "My initial instinct, and the instinct that remains, is that I'm thrilled with it. Michael Ovitz knows our business, so there's a familiarity that will lend support." Harvey Weinstein, co-chairman of the Disney subsidiary Miramax Films, calls Eisner and Ovitz "the greatest one-two combination since Sandy Koufax and Don Drysdale--only they're both Koufax. Mike Ovitz is the No. 1 talent magnet. Talent loves him. If you say, 'Hey, Mike, I'm having trouble casting this movie,' in about...
...kicked off a huge volunteer effort that he did not join until later. Despite a recent decision not to create a formal political party, Perot's United We Stand America is still very active. Other Perot alumni have split off who would find a Powell candidacy appealing and would lend expertise and manpower. And the experience of less impressive independent candidates suggests that ballot access is not an insurmountable problem. George Wallace in 1968 and John Anderson in 1980 bolted from their parties late in the game and managed to be on every state's ballot. Lenora Fulani...
...newspapers are simply refusing to lend to the Unabomer's document the credibility and exposure which it would gain by devoting it six or seven full pages in two of the nation's most widely read newspapers. In truth, the newspapers do not have the option of securing the safety of the Unabomber's next potential victim...
...French soldiers were a symbolic down payment on the 10,000 troops who will form a rapid-reaction force to back up the 22,500 U.N. peacekeepers already in the country. The landing on Mount Igman also seemed to lend support to the Bosnia U.N. military command's tentative plan to open a supply route from besieged Sarajevo to the sea at Split...