Word: payoffs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...earnest courtship of congressional Republicans has resulted in one early, tentative payoff. For once, no one's lips are forming the words "dead on arrival" to describe the President's plan. But they are guarded. "I'm not sure he has the political stroke yet to get done what he knows has to get done," Senate majority leader Trent Lott told TIME. "I know the budget they're sending up here next week will not be as honest and will have more gimmicks in it than he wanted...
...Clinton asserted, "I never made a decision for anybody because they were contributors of mine." But the story of Solomont--his giving, his lobbying and his rise to become the Democratic Party's new finance chairman--suggests that at least one Democrat's generosity might have yielded a policy payoff. It also suggests to critics that people like Solomont might not be the best suited to carry out Clinton's solemn promises to, as he said last week, "clean up the system...
...morally murky coming-of-age story that explains why it ain't easy being Easy. The tale concerns a pivotal episode that Mosley has alluded to in the previously published novels: the murder by Easy's homicidal sidekick, Mouse, of his stepfather. Witnessing the killing--and accepting a payoff to keep quiet about it--is the original sin that dogs the rest of Easy's life as he joins the great black migration to Los Angeles, fights in World War II and struggles to find a place of dignity for himself in a society that maintains, at best, only grudging...
...murky coming-of-age story that explains why it ain?t easy being hero Easy Rawlins. The tale concerns a pivotal episode that Mosley has alluded to in the previously published novels: the murder by Easy's homicidal sidekick, Mouse, of his stepfather. Witnessing the killing -- and accepting a payoff to keep quiet about it -- is the original sin that dogs the rest of Easy?s life as he joins the great black migration to Los Angeles, fights in World War II and struggles to find a place of dignity for himself in a society that maintains, at best, only...
...would ever have believed that Whitewater, the money-losing land deal that has dogged the Clintons since the last campaign, would deliver a political payoff? But the more Bob Dole mentioned it, even when delicately veiling the subject in the broader "character" issue, the more it seemed to make Dole look meanspirited...