Word: moneys
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Republicans and the Democrats, the massive amounts of money now being pumped into the presidential campaigns is stifling the primary system. The whole point of primaries is to put the nomination in the hands of the voters, not the party establishment. When candidates' ability to milk party donors weeds out candidates instead of popular opinion, the system is broken...
Elizabeth did have to sacrifice varsity field hockey. And earning so much money made her, at least for a while, rethink her college choices. While she once saw Meramec Community College as the "slacker way out," she actually considered spending two years of college there in order to continue teaching horseback riding. Her mother convinced her otherwise...
...corner on the north side of St. Louis, Mo., waiting for Miss Judy's yellow school bus. Even before the bus arrives, he sees his mother in her Ford station wagon, pulling over on her way to work. She rolls down the window and waves a $5 bill--lunch money. Jonathan leans in and kisses her goodbye. Minutes later he boards the bus for the half-hour trek to Webster Groves...
...parents lock their bedroom because Bobby "borrows" money, CDs--even shoes. He ignores his 1 a.m. curfew and regularly loses keys, coats and wallets. He goes to school mostly to see the girls and skips class as he pleases. Last year he had 109 tardies...
...portal when you can build your own? Internet incubator CMGI will unveil a beefed-up version of its AltaVista search engine today. Promotion spending for the next nine months is budgeted at $120 million, $8 million of which will be spent today. That's a lot of money, for sure, but it's still much cheaper than getting a portal on the open market. Yahoo wanna-be Lycos, another big CMGI investment, is currently worth $5 billion now, with the real Yahoo currently trading at nearly nine times that figure...