Word: nra
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...possible credit rating by Dun & Bradstreet, a major credit-rating agency. The report of the gun lobby's failing financial strength and credit worthiness shows, "an organization that has dug itself a deep hole," according to accountant James Nesbitt, who audits non-profit groups. Following other reports that the NRA has run in the red since 1991 with a cumulative deficit of some $60 million, at least one NRA contractor is reviewing Dun & Bradstreet's four-page evaluation. Other banks and contractors might do the same, which according to Nesbitt, might curtail NRA operations...
...Eliot House senior slides into a booth in the Wursthaus restaurant in Harvard Square, fingers the bill of his dark cap with "NRA life Member" in gold print, and flips open the menu...
...companion might be expecting a conservative tirade from the former president of the Harvard Republican Club and a guardian of Peninsula, a conservative campus magazine. Instead, Campbell, who spent three years rowing crew, jokes about his growing waistline. The NRA cap? He likes to shock Harvard liberals with the cap and by "whistling `Dixie' in the Yard." And when he meets someone open-minded, the cap can prompt a conversation that bridges ideological divides...
...have a number of liberal friends who have friends who say' I can't believe you talk to that guy,"' Campbell says. "I love it when after a section, people ask who was that making comments, and they can't believe it's really me, the guy in the NRA...
Campbell's ideas may be controversial, but his explanations are reasoned and thoughtful. He argues that George Bush acted hastily in resigning from the NRA, and, nothing the government's errors in Waco and the Randall Weaver Case, offers a spirited defense of the controversial NRA fundraising letter which called some agents of the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms "jack-booted thugs."("Those comments were referring to those specific cases where lives were lost or there was damage because of the ATF," he says). On abortion, Campbell says the debate is between those who put "self-interest" first...