Word: triads
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Citizens for Reform was really a shell for Triad Management Services, a firm based in Washington that matches conservative donors with candidates and causes. In late September, a Triad agent huddled with the campaign of Yellowtail's opponent, Rick Hill, and figured out how to help. According to a Triad memo, Hill needed a "3rd party to expose Yellowtail" on "wife-beating." Citizens for Reform launched its ad a couple of weeks later, sparing Hill the indignity of playing the mudslinger. It was a turning point in the race, and it appears to be a prime example...
...groups in the G.O.P. universe, Triad was one of the most effective at helping the party's cause behind the scenes. Citizens for Reform and another Triad shell group ran ads affecting more than two dozen congressional campaigns after a Triad consultant surveyed each one to determine how best to make a difference. Triad attorney Mark Braden denies there was collaboration, but if there was in the Hill-Yellowtail contest, it did make all the difference...
...Carbon bearing compounds are just one leg of the triad, but on Europa we have all three," Hibbittz said...
...last of Hoffmann's triad of heartbreaking heroines is the conniving courtesan Giulietta (Heidi Brown). A slave to the evil Dappertutto (again played by Benaim), she tries to steal the soul of Hoffman by capturing his reflection in a mirror. She abandons Hoffmann after he engages in a bloody duel with her wealthy suitor Schlemil (James Capobianco...
...national security chief Alexander Lebed. Lebed and Chernomyrdin have presidential ambitions. Chubais, whose role in the privatization of Russian industry made him deeply unpopular, has no hope of winning the presidency but would clearly like to be Prime Minister in the post-Yeltsin era. No single member of the triad can claim supremacy over the others, and none trusts his two colleagues. Watching, and ready to join in when the opportunity arises, are two more potential contenders. Communist leader Gennadi Zyuganov would welcome a second crack at the presidency; meanwhile, Chernomyrdin and other senior figures are certain that Moscow mayor...