Word: spender
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that had not been expected until July 1, mostly for Aid to Dependent Children. With many state treasuries down to alltime lows, these funds are certain to be spent with haste. For fiscal 1973, the Department of Health, Education and Welfare will displace the Pentagon as the largest Government spender. Much of its $7 billion increase will go for Social Security rises...
...cast doubt on his importance and his character; in the process, they also betrayed the fact that, even in this drab age, the life of a spy can have its high points. A natty dresser who bought his clothes in Regent Street, Oleg was known as a big spender who, according to one restaurateur, "thought nothing of picking up an £80 [$192] tab." He had a wife and seven-year-old son in Moscow, but British newspapers linked him with at least five women in London?an Israeli student, a Czech student, two English secretaries and "a gorgeous Russian...
...parties at election time. With the demise of the one-party system have come party primaries and challenges to longtime incumbents that strain pocketbooks unaccustomed to opposition. There was no senatorial contest in Georgia, but candidates for Governor and the House spent more than $5,000,000. The biggest spender was former Governor Carl Sanders, who invested $2,000,000 in a losing race for the Democratic nomination. Democratic Governor-elect Jimmy Carter spent $1,000,000. On the Republican side, the biggest spender also came up short on votes: James Bentley ($900,000) lost the primary to a more...
...social issues and to paint the Democratic Party as "the party of permissiveness." The Democrats are "way out on the left," he observed. "Keep them there." The main problem facing the Republicans is the state of the economy, and he urged that Agnew meet it by pinning a "big spender" label on the Democrats...
...Deal brand of liberalism made him a spender. His personal background and early congressional experience−he was the chairman of a Special Un-American Activities Committee in the 1930s−made him a strident antiCommunist. Issues, however, concerned him less than the party line. As with other old-school legislators, his capital was discipline and personal obligation. Once while presiding over the House, he noticed a conservative Democrat lobbying several New Jersey members in the back of the chamber. McCormack left his place and marched on the group. "This is a McCormack bill," he told the Jerseyites...