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...business lobby is the United States Chamber of Commerce, which has far surpassed the once influential National Association of Manufacturers as a pragmatic power in Washington. As long as a decade ago, the N.A.M. was dismissed by one expert on capital powerbrokers as being lost in "a faintly fusty aura of dignity, lavender and the Union League." By contrast, the Chamber, operating out of a stately marble and limestone headquarters facing Lafayette Park, has come on strong. Embracing 2,500 local affiliates, 1,300 professional and trade associations and 68,000 corporations, it threw its weight behind 61 legislative issues...
Here, as in the latter portion of the book dealing with educational aims, the removed narrative voice and the aura of opacity pervading the book disguises a justification of policies that academic administrators--hence Pusey himself--adopted during this period...
...Cold Aura...
Biagetti said this will improve the image of the department by "dissipating the myth of a draconian grading policy" and ending the "aura of coldness" which many students think is a characteristic of the department...
...think of a more delightful way to usher in spring than with your story on John Travolta [April 3]. He is an electrifying, sumptuous boyman, who exudes a magical aura on-screen that could cause volcanic eruptions. In our part of the world, he has caused disco-dance-contest crazes, polyester-chrome-hair crazes, neon Saturday Night Fever T shirts...