A year later in 1989, he purchased the Texas Rangers Baseball team. ... The Republican leaders gave him more endorsements than any other candidate had received and also raised more money than any other candidate in history. ... The outcome of the election was one of the closest and costliest campaigns in American history. ...
After graduating from Yale with a history degree in 1968, George W. joined the Texas Air National Guard which some believe it was to avoid military service in Vietnam. ... Although he had never been considered an alcoholic, Bush did have a history of drinking too much, and shortly after his fortieth birthday in July1986 he gave up alcohol for good. ... After the 1988 election, Bush returned to Texas and in 1989 assembled a group of investors to buy the Texas Rangers baseball team for $86 million. ...
The history of corporations is rich in instances where their finances have been given full consideration before that of the public's well being. ... Lastly, the Companies Act of 1989 gave the corporation the power to do " all such things as incidental or conducive to carry on any trade or business... "# The general slackening of control over corporations in the history of their development has led us to the point where they are ultra-powerful and beyond simple reproach by citizen or government. ...
Iraq Policy: Motives and Consequences", written in 1989 and given as part of a lecture, Noam Chomsky, Professor of linguistics at MIT and frequent critic of U.S. foreign policy, seeks to expose the U.S. for its duplicitious self interest in dealing with Iraq. ... By offering up the red herring of Hussein's rampant crime history as if to suggest that the west even cares, is all part of the orientalist's bag of tricks. ...
