Word: pac
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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East meets West. Ivy meets Pac-10. The Stanford Tree might even change its leaves' colors for this...
...history as Lucy, Uncle Miltie and the Great One. Their names were Pinky, Blinky, Inky and Clyde, but most people knew them simply as the squat, ghostlike monsters who scurried around a maze trying to gobble you up in the most popular video game of all time, Pac-Man. Remember the tinkly computer tune that signaled the start of each game? The "power pellets" that changed the monsters' color to blue and turned the chasers into the chased? The animated "half-time show" that appeared after two mazes were completed (and the even better one -- "They Meet" -- in the sprightly...
...requirements in the current bill by pushing an amendment, sponsored by Illinois Republican Henry Hyde, that would have allowed S & Ls a regulatory hearing before they could be forced to comply with the new standards. Hyde, the industry's most vociferous advocate, is a leading recipient of S & L PAC contributions. After Bush threatened to veto the bill if capital standards were weakened, the amendment was firmly defeated...
...more and more thrift executives got into trouble in 1987 and 1988, S & L PACs simply stepped up their campaign giving; by the time Washington finally got around to addressing the S & L crisis this year, the cost of a bailout had swollen to an outrageous $158 billion or more over the next eleven years. Over the past three elections, according to the Wall Street Journal, the S & Ls gave $4.5 million to the members of Congress willing to protect them. House Banking Committee member Jim Leach, an Iowa Republican who refuses to take PAC money, believes this...
Despite the poisonous atmosphere on Capitol Hill as House Democrats lose their Speaker, the new attention to speaking fees, lobbyist-paid vacations and pac money is long overdue. -- Republican pit bull Newt Gingrich, whose accusations scuttled Wright, thirsts for more blood. Some Democrats hope it will...