Global Crossing's political contributions were fairly evenly distributed between Republican and Democratic parties ; Winnick tended to favor Democrats and co-chairman Cook Republicans.

Winnick was chairman from 1997 until 2002.

* Gary Winnick, founder and former chairman of Global Crossing

In 1997, Global Crossing raised $ 35 million of capital from the CIBC Argosy Merchant Funds ( later Trimaran Capital Partners ), the heads of which were former associates of Winnick.

Between 1998 and 2001, Winnick sold approximately $ 420 million in Global Crossing stock, and other executives sold an additional $ 900 million.

Winnick later donated $ 1 million to President Bill Clinton's presidential library.

When Kelmsley Winnick, one of the consortia that had been awarded a franchise in the new Independent Television network in 1954 collapsed, the ITA approached ABPC to step into the breach.

Labour MP David Winnick commented to King that " there ’ s been some surprise in the United States but also in Britain that you have a job looking into and investigating into terrorism " and added that King " seems to be an apologist for terrorism.

Global Crossing was founded by Gary Winnick, Abbott L. Brown, David L. Lee, and Barry Porter in 1997 through Pacific Capital Group, Winnick's personal venture group, which had experienced mixed results in its twelve-year history.

Winnick purchased the mansion on in September 2000 from David Murdock.

David Winnick entered Parliament before Clarke ( in 1966 ) but left in 1970 and only re-entered in 1979.

The editor-in-chief of the project is Gregory Crane, the Tufts Winnick Family Chair in Technology and Entrepreneurship.

Maniac Mansion was the creation of Ron Gilbert and Gary Winnick, and marked the debut of SCUMM, the game engine that powered all but two of LucasArts later adventure games.

In 1985 he got the opportunity to co-develop his own game for LucasArts together with graphics artist Gary Winnick.

Palimony was used as a form of revenge by the Bridgette Wilson character, Chelsea Turner against her character's boyfriend Seth Winnick played by French Stewart in the 1999 film Love Stinks.

The Hillwood Cafe, Subway, and Starbucks are all located in Hillwood and serve as the main dining areas, along with the Winnick Student Center.

* Gary Winnick, BS, ' 69.

In 1999, CIBC World Markets, backed Gary Winnick and his company Global Crossing to build optical fiber cable connections under the ocean.

In 1998, the zoo opened Chimpanzees of the Mahale Mountains, followed by Red Ape RainForest in 2000, the Komodo Dragon Exhibit, the Winnick Family Children Zoo in 2001, the Entry Plaza, Children's Discovery Center and Sea Lion Cliffs ( now Sea Life Cliffs ) in 2005, Campo Gorilla Reserve in November 2007, Elephants of Asia in the winter of 2010, and the LAIR ( Living Amphibians, Invertebrates, and Reptiles ) in 2012.

Animals & You Program: These 15-minute long animal presentations take place at stations in the Winnick Family Children ’ s Zoo.

Winnick Family Children's Zoo: Located at the top of Winnick Family Children's Zoo, this petting zoo enables visitors to pet goats and sheep in an animal contact area known as Muriel ’ s Ranch.

Labour regained the seat in 1979 ; their candidate was the former Croydon South MP David Winnick, who has represented the constituency since then.

When the Soviets supported the 1979 coup, Rabbani helped lead Jamiat-e Islami in resistance to the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan regime.

In turn he gave FDR a showcase for New Deal achievement, helped defeat FDR's political enemies in Tammany Hall ( the Democratic party machine in Manhattan ).

A prominent lawyer in Indiana, he became an active and well known member of the Indiana Democratic Party by stumping across the state for other candidates and organizing party rallies that later helped him win election as the 27th Governor of Indiana.

His popularity as governor, and Indiana's status as a critical swing state, helped him secure the Democratic vice presidential nomination on a ticket with Wilson in 1912 and win the subsequent general election.

The Democratic position also helped to retain prohibitionists ' support by allowing prohibition to remain enacted in communities where a majority supported it.

Bryan's address helped catapult him to the Democratic Party's presidential nomination ; it is considered one of the greatest political speeches in American history.

Cermak's political and organizational skills helped create one of the most powerful political organizations of his day, and Cermak is considered the father of Chicago's Democratic machine.

Eleanor Roosevelt helped hold the concert at Lincoln Memorial, on federal property, during the administration of a Democratic President and Congress.

This prediction was foiled by Strom Thurmond's candidacy as a splinter States ' Rights Democrat, but Clifford's strategy nonetheless helped win Truman election in his own right and establish the Democratic Party's position in the Civil Rights Movement.

What may have helped Jibril was Hawatmeh's own 1969 defection from the PFLP to form the Popular Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine ( PDFLP, later without the " Popular "), after Habash tried to compensate for some of the problems that had caused Jibril's exit.

A voter registration drive in 2002 helped gain support for the Democratic candidate for the US Senate, and turnout in Shannon County and across the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation helped narrowly elect Tim Johnson to office.

Jean Duceppe also helped found the New Democratic Party branch in Quebec, which later separated from the federal NDP and merged into the Union des forces progressistes ( UFP ), which gathered 1. 0 % of the vote during the 2004 election ).

" In response, Democratic Congressman Tom Lantos, chairman of the United States House Committee on Foreign Affairs, stated, " It took a tongue-lashing from Congress before these high-tech titans did the right thing and coughed up some concrete assistance for the family of a journalist whom Yahoo had helped send to jail.

He did and in exchange helped Carter win the support of South Dakota Democratic Senator James Abourezk for the Panama Canal treaty.

He joined the Liberal Party in 1948, and helped merged it with another right of center party to establish the Liberal Democratic Party ( LDP ) in 1955.

Through organizations like New York State's American Labor Party, they helped move the mass vote held by the Socialist Party in places like New York City, Bridgeport, Connecticut, and Reading, Pennsylvania into the Democratic Party.

In 1947, Niebuhr helped found the liberal Americans for Democratic Action ( ADA ).

Many Jews rose to leadership positions in the early 20th century American labor movement and helped to found unions in the " needle trades " ( clothing industry ) that played a major role in the CIO and in Democratic Party politics.

By the 1940s they were inside the Democratic Party, and helped overthrow Tammany Hall.

As a delegate to the Mississippi convention of 1851, called by Democratic Governor John A. Quitman to build momentum for secession, Alcorn helped defeat that movement.

He resigned from the Labour Party when it rejected one member, one vote in February 1981 and later as Leader of the Social Democratic Party, which he had helped to found, after the party's rank-and-file membership voted to merge with the Liberal Party.

In opposition to this, Governor Strom Thurmond of South Carolina helped organize walkout delegates from the 1948 Democratic Convention into a separate party, the States ' Rights Democratic Party ( popularly known as the ' Dixiecrats ').