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Convention Funding Secured.


The financial fortunes of this summer's Democratic National Convention were reversed, thanks to an aggressive scramble To encode (encrypt) data in order to make it indecipherable without having a secret key to "unlock" it. The term came from the early days of cryptography which camouflaged analog transmissions with secret frequency patterns.  for public and private money capped by a fundraiser featuring President Clinton Clinton.

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 at Mayor Richard Riordan's home in Brentwood.

That event netted about $1 million, and it came on the heels of the City Council approving a $4 million public subsidy subsidy, financial assistance granted by a government or philanthropic foundation to a person or association for the purpose of promoting an enterprise considered beneficial to the public welfare. , a vote conditioned on Riordan chipping in $1 million of his own cash.

Developer Ed Roski was forced to do the same. Both men had pledged to give the money if the convention came up short, but the council voted not to release any public money until they contributed theirs.

All told, that means the convention fundraisers secured $7 million in 24 hours. Convention officials said virtually all the money for the Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850.  event is either in the bank or on the way. The convention is budgeted at $35.3 million and planners expect to spend $2 million more on community events and other related activities. But published reports have pegged peg  
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Publication:Los Angeles Business Journal
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Date:Jul 3, 2000
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