Word: offshoot
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Dates: during 2010-2019
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...racial epithets against civil-rights legend Representative John Lewis, spat at other African-American members and called Representative Barney Frank, one of a handful of openly gay Congressmen, a "f_____." "Members have had death threats," read a fundraising missive from Mitch Stewart, the head of Organizing for America, an offshoot of President Obama's campaign website. "Democratic offices have been vandalized. Please chip in $5 or more to defend health reform - and those in Congress who fought to make it possible." Though both parties saw significant fundraising bumps from the passage of the bill, the Democratic National Committee raised...
...running in Smith's district, which was paid for by an offshoot of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, is part of a 17-state campaign slated to cost between $4 million and $10 million. Another conservative group, the American Future Fund, is running ads in 18 House districts that compares health care reform to a pig wearing lipstick before flashing a phone number. America's Health Insurance Plans, the industry trade group, has its own television campaign. Another secretive group called the League of American Voters, which works with former Bill Clinton adviser Dick Morris, is running additional ads targeting...
...mail delivered. A system had been developed in the colonies, in which merchants, slaves and Native Americans would pass letters and parcels from person to person until they reached their destinations. That soon gave way to designated mail carriers who traveled via horse and stagecoach. One short-lived offshoot of the horseback system, the Pony Express, had riders on about 400 horses who could get letters from St. Joseph, Mo., to Sacramento, Calif., in 10 days. After 18 months, however, the Pony Express ceased to exist when the complicated operation became too expensive...