Word: beltway
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...want to add tax cuts. Democrats like the bill as is; they're trying -- so far in vain -- to close debate and force a vote on the existing version. It's a good old-fashioned Senate stalemate, and suddenly the tobacco industry has something to chuckle about: An ugly Beltway bill is headed for an ugly Beltway funeral...
...move has been anticipated in Mass. Hall for at least a month. Rowe declined comment yesterday, but sources said he is headed for a private-sector job in Washington, D.C. Rowe worked in government and media inside the Beltway before coming to Harvard...
With a family rooted in the Beltway and experience in making friends and influencing people, Rowe has never had to stray far from his roots to be successful...
...Beltway calls the sort of public relations pounding Microsoft has taken in recent months "getting Borked," in honor of the partisan drubbing that kept Judge Robert Bork off the Supreme Court. So it was acutely ironic that the person doing the Borking last week was Judge Bork...
...result? Some of the Beltway's most bold-faced names have waded, often blindly, into the fray. Bork's surprising initiation into the regulatory camp took place at a press conference introducing the Project to Promote Competition Innovation in the Digital Age, a group of Microsoft rivals that will pursue its lofty goal by urging the authorities to sue Bill Gates' pants off. ProComp, as it's called, will have help navigating D.C.'s treacherous lobbying shoals from ex-Senator and Visa pitchman Bob Dole as well as from such heavy hitters as ex-Federal Trade Commissioner Christine Varney...