Word: nonprofits
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...trade mission. The two met again at the 1988 Democratic Convention in Atlanta. "A group of our friends, Asian-community people, went to attend the convention," Huang said last week in a deposition taken in a civil suit against the Commerce Department brought by Judicial Watch, a nonprofit conservative group investigating Democratic fund-raising practices. "So in one of the hotel lobbies we shake hands, and that...
...been conspicuous in his moderation, showing an independent streak on issues like term limits and abortion. But his proposals on the Government Reform and Oversight Committee have toed the line with the G.O.P.'s government-cutting agenda: he supported a proposal that would have banned government aid to nonprofit groups involved in politics...
...former Peace Corps volunteer in Sierra Leone, Mooers worked in the early '90s for a nonprofit agency to ease the transition to a market economy in the former Soviet bloc. Despite a background in foreign affairs, he's campaigning on domestic issues like putting more police on the streets, strengthening environmental regulation and increasing money for job training and college...
Benjamin, a former investment banker, founded the New York Benevolence Council, a nonprofit group that assists disadvantaged New Yorkers. The self-described "centrist Republican" is pro-choice and anti-death penalty; he also favors a flat 17% income tax and tough sentences for criminals with the "three strikes" rule and "truth in sentencing" legislation to require convicts to serve at least 85% of their jail time. But this newcomer needs an upset to win where Clinton got 60% of the vote...
Project Vote Smart, a nonprofit and nonpartisan group based in Oregon, provides information about local and national candidates at 1-800-622-SMART (7627). Congressional Quarterly offers similar services at voter96.cqalert.com/cq_rate.htm