Word: pacs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Farmer added that the Democrats have assuaged uneasiness about campaign money by refusing to accept PAC money in the race for the White House and voluntarily disclosing campaign finances this past August, an act which Farmer said the Republicans imitated...
Characterizing political fundraising competition as having an "arms race mentality," Jackson said PAC money was a major cause of abuse. "We don't know where this money is coming from or where it is going," he said, adding that the system was slipping back to the time when there were "no limits whatsoever...
Even hardened video-game junkies know that when the quarters run out, it is time to quit playing. That time has come for Bally, the entertainment powerhouse that once had the whole country zapping Space Invaders and propelling Pac-man through a maze. After 57 years of making pinball machines and, later, video games, the Chicago-based company announced it would sell its arcade-game division to WMS Industries, its major competitor, for $8 million. Video games earned Bally $91 million in 1982, but in 1983 the video craze cooled and profits plummeted to $5.2 million. Bally, which owns four...
...campaign button, Dukakis took a deeply calculated risk, an atypical gamble. Bentsen is not a shoo-in to win Texas, George Bush's adopted state. He could hurt the ticket by being perceived as an affront to the blacks and progressives who backed Jesse Jackson and by sullying the PAC-free sheen of the squeaky-clean Dukakis. And though he is greatly respected in the corridors of the Capitol, Bentsen does not top the list when people daydream about the ideal President of the United States...
...soon from Air Video of Toronto is a small-screen computer-game unit built into a seat tray table. The system, which is expected to be offered on some Canadian Airlines flights this fall, will enable passengers to play two to three games, ranging from chess to variants of Pac...