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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...lush rented banquet hall, or wide, from the face in a slick campaign ad on national television. It is a megaphone for ideas, and also a corruptor of democracy, because when money it is given in large enough quantities ? and yes, Messrs. Forbes and Perot and Huffington, it must be given to be truly effective ? it wins elections. It buys votes, because it is votes. It signals support, so it attracts support, and thus it is self-fulfilling. And because no candidate can win without it, nearly every candidate promises nearly anything to get more of it than his opponent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign-Finance Reform vs. Big Bucks: How They'll Play in 2000 | 7/9/1999 | See Source »

...wins, he will be less a public servant than a corporation, in thrall to polls on visible issues and to special-interest shareholders on everything else. The task of voicing such unpleasantness ? of running on it ? tends to be taken up by the underdogs, to the candidates who must make a virtue out of losing, out of not attracting those almighty dollars like flies to honey. Who think maybe they can win that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign-Finance Reform vs. Big Bucks: How They'll Play in 2000 | 7/9/1999 | See Source »

...Once a student has completed all the requirements for a degree, the student must get the degree," said Harvey A. Silverglate, who is representing Tsoukaldis. "They have sued the University under contract theory, simply claiming that the University can't do this under its own regulations...

Author: By Rachel P. Kovner, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Students Sue College for Diplomas | 7/9/1999 | See Source »

...package of foods is certainly helpful, but consumers need to retain a cautionary attitude, says Gorman. "One thing to watch out for is how much sugar is added to a cereal. Sugar provides empty calories with no nutritional value." To qualify for the new label, a food must contain 51 percent or more whole-grain ingredients by weight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Grains Are Toasted ? Then They're Boasted! | 7/8/1999 | See Source »

Next they'll be having an "everything must go" sale at Fort Knox. The latest gold rush has tens of thousands of miners in South Africa, Russia and other gold-producing countries facing unemployment ?- because there's a rush to sell. The Bank of England offloaded 25 tons on Tuesday, dragging the price of gold down to a 20-year low. And there's worse to come, as the International Monetary Fund proceeds with plans to sell $2.6 billion of its own gold reserves to raise money for debt relief to poor countries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Gold Miners Are Getting the Shaft | 7/7/1999 | See Source »

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