Word: thanked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Congressmen, who benefit so handsomely, to change the present situation. "It is a lot easier to raise money from PACs than from other sources," observes PAC Critic Barney Frank, a Democratic Congressman from Massachusetts. "You sit there, somebody hands you a check for $3,000, and you say 'Thank you.' " In the end, it is pressure from the voters that may limit the power of the PACs. Some lawmakers, like Missouri Democrat Richard Gephardt, detect rumblings of reform. Says he: "There is a growing sense that the system is getting out of hand." - By Walter Isaacson. Reported...
...came from Poland legally and hundreds of others who surreptitiously slipped out of that troubled country. After the rite, John Paul stepped down from the altar platform to kiss and embrace Gajowniczek, now 81, who had wept silently through the service. Gajowniczek recalls: "I was never able to thank him personally, but we looked into each other's eyes before he was led away...
...Photo-Control Corp., a maker of specialty camera equipment. As the market gyrated wildly last week, Astorino was very nervous. Said he: "I'm just a little guy who can't afford to lose a lot. I see no reason for the market to go up, but thank God, that's what it's doing...
...Alton). ("I've heard so much about you.") With her advice and encouragement, he leads a workers' uprising ("The chains of the masses untied") that vaults him to the Argentinian presidency ("Peron! Peron!") Eva wins the love of her descamlsados (shirtless ones) and initiates a not solely charitable foundation ("Thank God for Switzerland.") Cancer-stricken, ("What I'd give for a hundred years"), Eva dies at 33, viewed by many as a saint ("She is a diamond...
...decided to invite national leaders throughout this hemisphere to attend a signing ceremony on Sept. 7. As Torrijos and I waited in a small office before entering the large assembly hall, he tried to thank me for ending generations of frustration and despair among the Panamanian people. But before he could finish his statement, he broke down and sobbed as his wife held...