Word: phrase
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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President Bush's campaign operatives coined the phrase Team 100 for donors who contributed a minimum of $100,000 to the Republican Party. Now President Clinton and the Democratic Party have their own Team 100. Eight players have suited up for both...
...trouble is that over the past 20 years, the general direction of the dollar has been down. Remember the phrase "sound as a dollar"? It used to be popular, back when telephones were black and had rotary dials...
...officials are trying hard to curb the far more significant problem of illegal ticket scalping. According to authorities, organized crime is deeply involved in the illicit reselling of tickets. When a $25 ticket can ultimately sell for $500, the difference amounts to a large chunk of untraceable cash -- a phrase that is pure music to a mobster's ears. Police sources told Time last week that the Mob runs some scalping operations in New York and other large cities. Blocks of tickets earmarked by performers for charities such as impoverished youth groups, for example, are instead often delivered to Mafia...
Loss after loss would be met with a shrug and that phrase, as if a positive attitude could compensate for a lack of size inside and an inability to run a tight, clean-working offense...
...major contribution to Clinton's election was stopping negative stories about the candidate. She made some notable gaffes, however, including issuing a premature denial that Clinton had ever used cocaine -- answering the question before it was even asked. During the spring and summer of 1992, she coined the unseemly phrase "bimbo eruptions" to describe the targets of her work. Wright hired San Francisco private detective Jack Palladino at a reported cost of more than $100,000 to investigate women who were making claims about relationships with Clinton. So protective of Clinton was Wright during the campaign that other top campaign...