Word: repays
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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What's more, the money chase could serve Forbes in a highly personal way. Unlike Ross Perot, Forbes is not giving his own money to his campaign. He's lending it--with the option to repay himself later from any donor funds that remain unspent at the end of his campaign. If he gains the White House, he can also legally undertake postelection fund raising until he completely pays back his IOUs to himself. Though he says they haven't discussed it, Dal Col adds, "I'm sure Forbes would do it, pay himself back." In the meantime, by fronting...
...principles at stake in the fight to balance the budget, there may be just one that neither Republicans nor Democrats dare to abandon: the pleasure principle. It rests on two basic premises. The first is that if you make voters happy, they repay the kindness at election time. The second is that the fastest way to their hearts is through their wallets. As Gingrich put it in November, "No politician in the 20th century has been defeated for cutting taxes...
...automaker says Iacocca, who retired in 1992 but stayed on for two more years as a $500,000-a-year consultant, gave confidential corporate information to Kerkorian during the Las Vegas billionaire's push to take over the company last spring. The suit seeks to force Iacocca to repay Chrysler for money and services received since shortly after his retirement, when they say he began meeting with Kerkorian, and cites Iacocca's "exorbitant" $42,000-a-month fee as a consultant to Kerkorian as proof that he gave away company secrets. Iacocca, who brought the company back from near bankruptcy...
Last week the United Nations turned 50. And while New York celebrated its accomplishments, Washington continued to undercut its support for the U.N. Congress refuses to repay its $1.4 billion debt to the U.N. It points to the organization's wasteful spending and sluggishness as reasons to remove its support. However, the U.S. should not remove its support at this critical time as the U.N. tries to reform itself...
...defect? Hussein Kamel: I was motivated by the interests of the country. I reached the point where I found [criticizing erroneous policies] to be futile. For the past 15 years Iraq has not stopped fighting. It has ended up accumulating debts that will require generations and generations to repay. There are too many executions in our society, too many arrests. Whatever the age of the critic--whether 80 or 15--many people are executed. For these reasons I left...