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...increasingly Hispanic Southern California district. Even Jesse Helms, North Carolina's conservative firebrand, started sounding more tolerant about abortion, touted his ability to direct federal aid to his state after Hurricane Fran left $5 billion in damage and boasted of his success in protecting the state's tobacco and peanut farmers from Republican budget cutters...
...California. "Everybody knows the problems of campaign money today: there's too much of it, it takes too much time to raise, and it raises too many questions." A President who helped his party raise an astonishing $250 million from entities ranging from American Ambulance & Oxygen to the U.S. Tobacco Co. proposed eliminating "soft money" contributions--the unlimited donations to the national and state parties that pay for everything from negative ads to get-out-the-vote drives. He reiterated his support for the only piece of legislation around, the McCain-Feingold bill, that would ban soft money, as well...
...discussion are meant to make students more confident, more assertive and more discerning about the messages they get from pop culture and from classmates. It appears to work: 4,446 Newark, New Jersey, seventh-graders in a Life Skills program tracked through graduation engaged in only half the drug, tobacco and alcohol use of their un-Skilled contemporaries...
...wise-ass intellectual from the big city, there are a slew of rural phenomena that I'll never truly be able to understand. Country music, chewing tobacco and the gun lobby are first and foremost among them...
Gordon, deriding his high-profile opponent's campaign strategy of stumping in a leased red truck and chewing tobacco, calls himself a fiscal conservative. But he remains a Democrat at heart, supporting a minimum-wage hike and opposing the G.O.P. budget's cuts in education, police, Medicaid and Social Security...