Word: pacs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...affability, Pete du Pont is no exception. When he decided to run for President, he told aides that he had only four rules: "No debt, no PAC money, no family, no house." Du Pont did not want reporters interviewing him at Patterns or in Maine, counting the servants and priceless antiques. He has always shielded his four children from the political spotlight. His son Ben, 22, an engineer at the du Pont company, had to beg his father to be allowed to campaign part-time...
...exploit that market, software houses are busy developing adult-oriented games that are more sophisticated than Pac-Man and Donkey Kong and can be played as easily on a keyboard as with a joy stick. Programmer Crawford's current best seller, for example, is Mindscape's Balance of Power ($49.95), a foreign policy simulation in which the player tries to check Soviet expansion in as many as 62 different countries without starting a nuclear war. In Starflight by Electronic Arts ($49.95), players explore some 270 star systems and 800 simulated planets, zapping aliens all the way. Infocom has even come...
...only one I know of is Gary Hart--he did not take PAC money in 1984 and will not take it in 1988," Roeder said in an interview from Des Moines. "The others either haven't said, or they are accepting PAC funds...
Dukakis explained his stance on PAC funds in response to a question from one of about 50 unionists, educators and social service activists. He said he was not sure whether he would accept in-kind PAC donations of volunteer work or supplies, but he clearly ruled out any cash contributions from any PACs...
...specifics of such a sweeping reform would have to be ironed out so as to not give an unfair advantage to incumbents, whose increased exposure usually requires less campaigning and expensive advertising. Other reforms that the new Senate can work on include lowering the maximum PAC contribution to candidates, placing greater restrictions on how PACs can independently spend money in support of a given candidate, and urging television stations to provide more free debate time to candidates...