Word: pac
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...team--composed of W. Colleen Ogle '83, Greg Williams '85, George Weiner '83, Joni Hiramoto '83 and Mathew McEvoy '84--did not lose one question during the competition until the finals. Then Eliot, before falling, won the query: What's the most popular video game at Harvard? (Pac Man topped the list...
...growing importance of PAC donations means that the scramble for such money has become an integral part of campaigning. "It used to be that lobbyists lobbied Congressmen," says PAC Critic Mike Synar, a Democratic Congressman from Oklahoma. "Now, Congressmen lobby lobbyists-for money." When that inevitable creature of the PAC explosion, the National Association for Association PACs, threw a party, 80 Congressmen showed up. "I've never seen such a group grope," says Democrat Dan Glickman of Kansas. Republican James Coyne of Pennsylvania playfully installed five Pac-Man video games near the bar of one of his Washington fund...
...used to be the most feared of all PACs. The National Conservative PAC (NCPAC), known as "Nickpac," mounted a series of harsh negative advertising campaigns in 1980 that it insists were responsible for defeating Democratic Senators George McGovern of South Dakota, Frank Church of Idaho, Birch Bayh of Indiana and John Culver of Iowa. In the heady aftermath, NCPAC grandly announced that it planned to shoot down 20 more liberal Senators in 1982. But NCPAC's aim has proved less deadly than thought, and its guns are beginning to backfire. NCPAC is now heavily involved in only five Senate...
...million NCPAC will raise for 1982, $4 million will go for negative propaganda unauthorized by any candidate, $1.5 million will be donated directly to candidates, and the rest will go for maintaining its expensive direct-mail lists and other administrative costs. A similar PAC, North Carolina Senator Jesse Helms' Congressional Club, will raise another $10 million...
...heavy contributions from political action committees that "read like the FORTUNE 500 list." Stephens, trying to overcome low name recognition, has raised about $120,000 so far, to Michel's $490,000. The House Republican leader ranks first in Illinois and third nationally among House candidates in PAC contributions...