Word: pocketed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...pocket, Kister has a stack of computer-generated cards bearing the names and addresses of all the Democrats and Independents in his assigned sector. On these cards he records a resident's likeliness to vote, preferred candidate and most strongly felt campaign issue. He visits one hundred houses a day; someone is home at maybe thirty. Of these, half are undecided and of those he might bring four or five into the Harkin camp. One day's work...
Harkin enters the ballroom to the cheers ofunion members and the flashes of pocket cameras,shakes hands, waves, sits down to dinner. Theunion leader goes to the podium and starts theintroduction just as the Chicken Kiev is beingserved. This is bad timing, because Harkin willstart speaking to the clinking of silverware,people will stop eating out of politeness, and thechicken and potatoes will grow cold and be leftuneaten...
...need him?" worried one partisan, who remembered Ailes in the 1988 campaign, shouting into a telephone at then-Vice President Bush, "If you are going to wear those silly short-sleeved shirts, put on a coat. If you don't wear a coat, get a plastic envelope for your pocket and fill it with pencils, so you look like a real clerk -- and stop flapping your arms...
...using the UC's name to attract Harvard students (who otherwise might not hear about the party) to the $7 event. None of the proceeds--not even the amount of the student-financed grant--will go to the UC or any other needy cause. Beys and his friends will pocket all of the profits...
...even if people are watching it! Too many of our kids are growing up brain dead. Make them do something. If they can read, pay them to tutor kids who can't (then charge them rent, to get the pay back, so you're not out-of-pocket). Sound tough? Hey, Perdue's right: it takes a tough man to make a tender chicken...