Word: money
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...legislation would bar House members from accepting fees for speeches, but they could suggest their hosts pass on up to $2,000 in the member's name to a charity of the member's choice. The bill requires members to reveal the donor but not the destination of the money...
...McBride, senior vice president of Common Cause, the self-proclaimed public interest organization, hailed the action as "moving toward a time when we will have government fully compensated by the public, and not by special interest influence money...
...Actually, that's just what the fundraising effort needs---celebrity spokespeople. Derek Bok is a big name in the academia, but he's no Bart Giamatti. Think of all of the money that a real star could generate. Look at Bill Cosby sucking in millions for Temple University. Maybe we could negotiate a deal with America's second best Dad, Michael Gross, from "Family Ties." I'm sure that he isn't doing much these days...
President Bok should take a close look at these sugestions. If he ignores them now, he will be stuck in a couple of months when his only option for raising money is to convince a public television station to run a phone bank drive. And the chances of that happening are about a billion...
...think there are too many men in this country who haven't been faced with the situation of being very young, having no money, and having a girlfriend who thinks she's pregnant. What do you do--especially if the choice has been made for you by the government?" another young male asked...