Word: woo
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Such political activism is hardly free of self-interest. Comedy Central's ratings nearly tripled when it provided humorous commentary to accompany President Bush's State of the Union address last January. Its more ambitious convention coverage, it hopes, will woo even more viewers to the channel. The motive of the record-industry executives who started Rock the Vote two years ago was to ward off censorship in the music business. They believed that their best defense against restrictive legislation would be to mobilize a constituency of voters among young music fans. Hence the organization set up voter-registration tables...
...long list of Administration officials has already appeared before the Gonzalez committee to admit that the effort to woo Iraq was a flop. "I have said 15 times today that it didn't work," Deputy Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger acknowledged wearily at the end of one session. But Administration spokesmen have also denied they were subject to undue pressure to favor Iraq. The combative Gonzalez has moved to counter their claims by reading into the Congressional Record a cloak of secret documents, mostly concerning White House efforts to secure the loan guarantees, which have become the subject of lengthy...
...Benno?" A bitter strike by graduate-student teaching assistants and recent recommendations for sharp cutbacks in faculty and the elimination of several academic departments damaged campus morale. But Schmidt, 50, managed to assuage some students by serenading them with country-and-western tunes on his guitar and to woo some alums with his impressive fund-raising talents; over the past two years he raised more than $600 million...
...woo women, Clinton will perhaps take more of a leading role in the fight for abortion rights, which he backs but for which he has in the past let others fight. "Tactically," said Harrison Hickman, a Democratic pollster, "you want to focus on getting those people out to vote. Strategically, you have to take a leaf from Perot's book by establishing your leadership credentials...
...popular vote in November sets up a stalemate, it is possible that the candidates would try to woo some of the Electoral College members, who meet in their respective state capitals in mid-December to cast their official votes. These electors are local political activists who run on slates chosen by each ^ candidate's organization. Though some states try to bind electors to vote for their nominee, these laws are not enforced when electors bolt. Still, party and personal loyalty would probably keep the vast majority faithful...