Word: paid
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Amid persistent charges that the Democraticcontenders lack clear messages and identities inthis campaign, Kalb's assessment is that theDemocrats have generally done as well as theRepublicans in the use of paid media. He does, ofcourse, single out certain candidates from bothparties whom he says have done better thanaverage...
...Gephardt has done superbly well in the use ofnegative-sounding paid ads on television," saysKalb. "It certainly paid off for him in Iowa andSouth Dakota... I think in the South it's going tobe more dispersed and diffuse so that you're notgoing to get a clear, hard focus on the relativevalue of some of these negative ads." He adds thatGephardt may not have sufficient funds to achievea similar success tomorrow, while Dukakis and Goredo have enough money...
...held so firmly to their past that we forget how far back they had to reach for it. It is easy to lose sight of the long centuries -- there were eight of them -- that separate the heroes of the Trojan War from the age of Socrates and Aeschylus, which paid homage to them. Much of what lay between was not an unbroken line of glory but a dim interregnum. The Mycenaean Greece that leveled Troy around 1200 B.C. was itself in ruins a hundred years later, smashed by Dorian invaders from the north. There followed a dark age that lasted...
...efforts. Right now, in fact, the owners reap far more than they sow, with more than 20 Olympic veterans about to enter their organizations. The hottest rumor: star Soviet Defensemen Vyacheslav Fetisov and Aleksei Kasatonov might join the New Jersey Devils, a sublime irony after years of Soviet state-paid shamateurism...
...Pindling. Similar charges are now surfacing in the Jacksonville trial of Cocaine Kingpin Lehder, who in the late 1970s acquired parts of Norman's Cay, using its 3,000-ft. runway as a refueling point for drug loads. Former Lehder associates have testified that Pindling and other officials were paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to ensure smooth transit. Pindling denies the charges...