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Lobbying at the federal level is an acquired taste even for people in proximity to the capital. Like the rest of the tech community, Washington-area execs long kept politics and government at arm's length, believing that all they needed to do was to make profits and create jobs and the lawmakers would leave them alone. But they have come to understand that they ignore Washington at their peril. The Justice Department's antitrust suit against Microsoft in 1998 scared all tech companies smart, and the firms closest to the seat of power are on their way to becoming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Getting To Know The Hill | 8/14/2000 | See Source »

Gore may want to keep the Clintons at arm's length in L.A., but he won't be distancing himself from the Clinton record. America's historic economic expansion and vastly improved social indicators are blue-chip arguments for a Gore presidency--and they refute Bush's version of the recent past. In other words, the rematch isn't going away. Just to keep the rivalry humming, Gore plans to send Clinton to campaign in battleground states in the fall. Poppy Bush will be spending a dozen or so days on the stump as well. The two old warriors will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Republican Convention: The Grudge Match | 8/14/2000 | See Source »

...Time.com Convention features included daily "e-mail from the trail" on the online arm of this magazine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Dotcoms Really Make Politics Pay? | 8/14/2000 | See Source »

...pick up his cleaning b) Belize c) visit the Yankees' minor league camp d) start throwing with his other arm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: News Quiz Aug. 7, 2000 | 8/7/2000 | See Source »

...billion. Cheney's high-level contacts in Washington and around the world helped bring in business. Under Cheney, the company's Brown & Root construction subsidiary has worked hand in hand with the Democratic Administration--as it had done before him with the Bush White House--acting as a virtual arm of the Federal Government to provide food and housing for U.S. military forces abroad in trouble spots ranging from Somalia to Bosnia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Republican Convention: Cheney and Halliburton: The Business of Sanctions | 8/7/2000 | See Source »

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