Word: raiser
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Prizes donated by local businesses will beawarded to the students who raise the most money,with the biggest money-raiser receiving aMacintosh SE personal computer. Other incentivesinclude a 20-inch stereo color television and astereo...
...year history as a republic. The country had held high hopes for Collor, 43, who was elected in 1989 on an anticorruption platform. But last August a special congressional commission found strong evidence that Collor had accepted $6.5 million from a slush fund operated by his former campaign fund raiser. Now the country's hopes -- well founded so far -- are for an orderly transition of power...
...THERE'S ONE THING LOBBYISTS HATE, IT'S BEING ON THE wrong side once the votes are counted, so they're eager to write checks in the closing weeks of the campaign. In a plea accompanied by return-paid Federal Express envelopes two weeks ago, chief G.O.P. fund raiser Bob Mosbacher implored friends of the Administration to help raise $9 million fast, noting with horror that "for the first time in history, the Democrats have been beating us." Sure enough, Clinton-Gore bumper stickers are becoming a badge of wealth. Best measure coming up: the competition to contribute as much...
...BUSH'S campaign. Among them are attack-adman Roger Ailes, who will soon take over "special projects," and Craig Fuller, who is expected to reprise his 1988 role as chief of operations. Most urgent, though, Robert Mosbacher has agreed to return to his old job as chief G.O.P. fund raiser. Funds are running perilously low. With just nine weeks left until Election Day, the party's Victory '92 operation, targeted to raise $46 million for state party needs, advertising and get-out-the-vote activities, has pulled in only $5 million. The Presidential Trust Fund, which supports daily campaign operations...
...thrown out and thus spare the nation a prolonged governmental paralysis. Collor's hopes of hanging on nearly disappeared last week when a congressional commission concluded after a three- month investigation that he and members of his family had received $6.5 million from his former campaign fund raiser, who extorted large sums from businessmen hoping for government contracts or favors. Lawmakers will vote on whether to accuse Collor formally and start a trial in the Senate sometime this month -- if the President can survive in office even that long...