Word: conductivity
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...needs at least $200 million from them to meet Getz's expectation. To that end, a creeping network of alumni groups (the list reads like a list of hamburger variations: major gifts committee, class campaign committees, steering committees, area special gifts workers, area class agents, area steering committees) will conduct scores of dinners, movie-showing sessions and telephone campaigns to personalize the appeal as fully as possible. Richard B. Boardman, director of special gifts, says that area agents will take care to solicit each alumnus for about the amount he seems capable of giving. "Contributors will be asked to respond...
...four more Democratic Congressmen will begin in September. In October, Republican Congressman Richard Kelly of Florida will go on trial in Washington. His chief witness will be a psychic who plans to testify that she told Kelly to beware of FBI agents and that is why he decided to conduct his own investigation. Part of that inquiry, Kelly claims, involved stuffing $25,000 in cash from an ABSCAM "Arab" into his pocket, as captured by the FBI cameras. -By James Kelly. Reported by Evan Thomas/New York...
...anything, the presidency has been weakened too much in recent years. I think we need to strengthen the presidency again, not in terms of an excess of unaccountable power, but you know, it is really a pathetic sight that you leave a President with $1.95 a year to conduct foreign relations. For example, in the case of Nicaragua, where a little help early on might have strengthened the moderate forces, we had to spend three-quarters of the year fooling around with nothing [before Congress appropriated $75 million in economic aid to Nicaragua...
...protest demonstrations outside Begin's residence. Israel's attorney general last week announced that Halevy "may have committed a prima facie violation of Israeli law by publishing the name of the director of the General Security Service" - which is forbidden within Israel - and that he would conduct an investigation to see if an indictment were warranted...
...event), it was sometimes difficult to figure out who was convening. President Carter's renomination was a fairly humdrum story, yet the networks deployed 2,000 staffers and spent $30 million in pursuit of respectable ratings. By comparison, the Democratic National Committee was given only $4 million to conduct the entire four-day affair...