Word: money
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...only a couple of weeks of this horrid month left to get through. But that money won't burn a hole in our pocket, at least not until Nov. 1, 1999, when the spirits that haunt the market will vanish and the coast will once again be clear...
...wants to look at," says Ensler, 46, who began interviewing women for The Vagina Monologues after she was "shocked" at the way a friend talked disparagingly about her own sex organ. The work has become the centerpiece of an annual effort on Valentine's Day to raise money to fight violence against women. "You know when your life mission shows up and you can no longer avoid it," she says. "I suddenly realized I had to do something major...
...talking about "having a different kind of campaign," styling himself the high-minded statesman and Bradley the conventional pol. To anyone paying attention, it's pretty transparent. For 10 months Gore wouldn't come within 100 miles of Bradley; now that Bradley leads in New Hampshire and has more money in the bank than Gore, the Vice President wants weekly debates to "elevate our democracy." Even Gore's advisers admit the ploy. "Sure it's tactical," says one, "but it's also good for the country." The danger for Bradley is that his countertactics look no nobler than Gore...
...high point came in Los Angeles on Wednesday, when Gore landed the endorsement of the 13 million-member AFL-CIO--a labor machine that can give his campaign soft money, vote-pulling muscle and 200 organizers in Iowa alone--it wasn't the only one. That night in Seattle, after the Senate shot down the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, Gore tried to build momentum by staying up late to write, edit and star in a TV spot in which he pledged that his first act as President would be to send the treaty back to the Senate. That...
...full-scale personal attack. Behind the scenes last week, congressional Republicans were zipping faxes to each other labeling Senator John McCain a hypocrite: here he was, they said, championing campaign-finance reform while taking money from those with business before the Commerce Committee he chairs. And they had the list to prove it! Software companies, cable companies, phone companies, airlines! Rivals also whispered darkly that McCain has an uncontrollable temper. Message: too loco to be President. McCain defended himself against the hypocrisy charge--"Who is corrupted by this system? All of us are corrupted," he told his colleagues...