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...candidate can set up dozens of committees and then disclaim knowledge of what they spent on his behalf. In fact, nobody has ever been prosecuted for evading the reporting rules. How could they be? Nobody checks or audits even the acknowledged expenses. As for banned contributions, companies can easily lend favored candidates their company planes or public relations experts and give cash through individual executives. And nothing stops individuals from $5,000 gifts (pros make it $3,000 to avoid gift-tax reports) to as many committees as they please. Meanwhile, unions give via so-called independent affiliates, such...
Instead of funneling grants to charitable projects, the corporation would lend money to concerns which otherwise couldn't get off the ground. It was to be as imaginative as possible in doling out the loans, helping residential, commercial, or industrial developments...
...clear corollary of Spalding's opinion is that not only arbitrary law enforcement, but also the laws that lend themselves to it, deserve close judicial scrutiny. In this context, the long-standing practice of holding persons on suspicion of having committed a felony becomes highly questionable. So, probably, does the Commonwealth's recently enacted stop-and-frisk...
...missionary spirit prompts us to put good art in contact with the undergraduates, interest them, get them to the Fogg. We have no desire, however, to lend out paintings for decoration," he said...
...revolution," announced Fidel Castro at the closing of OLAS, and Fidel Castro is a man who is serious about seeing that revolution succeeds. "Latin America has said 'Enough!' and has started to move forward!" the signs say. But does a conference like the Organization of Latin American Solidarity really lend much effective aid to that struggle...