Word: pac
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lean back in your chair, and slip into reverie about beating Michigan in the Rose Bowl (the Pac-10 champ cancelled at the last minute) and winning the national title. You smile, and wave to the national television audience as you get interviewed by Keith Jackson...
Yesterday's debate was before an arms controlgroup called STAR-PAC, or Stop the Arms RacePolitical Action Committee...
Interns come to D.C. (they seldom come to "Washington") because of their longstanding interest in the machinery of government. They come because their parents are darlings of the local Congressman's PAC. And they come on pilgrimage to Georgetown, where interns now mourn the passing of the 18-year-old drinking age. (Thank God, though, for Santa's beneficent grandfather...
Carlson said he went on to lead a task force on OPEC-induced energy shortages and to run unsuccessfully for Senate, before taking the top post at the National Association of Realtors, the largest PAC in the U.S. With a laugh, he said he accepted the position "on behalf of making democracy work...
...Republican Congressman Herbert ("Sonny") Callahan of Alabama, who proposed that the Pentagon reimburse Dravo for losses incurred between last October and such time as the repeal is signed into law. Callahan too has reason to be sympathetic: Dravo is a major employer in his district around Mobile. The Dravo PAC has also provided him with $4,000 in recent years...