Word: slush
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...course, we must be careful not to allow the establishment of slush funds or rely on short-term, haphazard handouts that would probably go to waste. We need a permanent global endowment devoted to wildlife protection, funded primarily by the governments of the industrial nations and international aid agencies. The principal could remain invested in the donor nations as the interest flowed steadily into conservation efforts...
...views of the donor will have absolutely no influence on the views of the recipient," said Gore Monday of the proposal, which would combine the less-than-$1,000 from private citizens and the big, "soft money" donations of corporations, political action committees and unions into a central slush fund called the Democracy Endowment. The plan, which the vice president also hopes will free candidates from the time-consuming task of fund-raising, is reportedly giving special interest groups and lobbyists - faced with the possibility of losing their influence in Washington - a serious case of the willies...
...page 2,611, single-spaced. His gay editor is in town, hungry both for the new book and for Douglas' best student, a boy who has gunned down the department chairman's dog, who bit Douglas on the leg. The wound has become infected. Douglas limps through the slush of a Pittsburgh winter, dressed in his former wife's pink chenille bathrobe. He hasn't shaved in three days. He drives around stoned, with the murdered dog in the trunk of a car, which he believes to be his but which was stolen from a man with a James Brown...
...picture this lovely doesn't come along every day, but it used to. Until the greed-is-wonderful 1980s, the figure Douglas portrays was a regular in American culture--the beautiful loser, the shimmering failure, the mess who for all his stumbles in the slush still strove for something honorable and was honored by the greater world in which he gloriously flopped...
...loser forever. At the end of the picture, there he is--clean-shaven, writing his new and tidy novel, his new wife and child emerging from his new car--all seen from a vast picture window in a new house so full of sunlight it makes one long for slush...