Word: yeast
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...indefatigable fund raiser: "Women still feel they ought to say thank you for their paychecks, so it's hard to get them in the habit of making campaign contributions and doing it for more than spare change." Nonetheless, fund-raising operations -- notably EMILY's List (Early Money Is Like Yeast), the Hollywood Women's Political Committee and the Women's Campaign Fund -- are slowly changing the gender deficit. EMILY's List, founded by Ellen Malcolm, has raised more than $800,000 in 1990, in contrast to $650,000 two years earlier. Special-interest groups like the National Abortion Rights Action...