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What happens to a corporation when environmental concerns overlap with good public relations? You get the latest Beltway love match: Ford Motor Company and the Sierra Club. It seems that ever since the giant automaker began investigating ways to entice green-minded consumers by improving the fuel efficiency of their gas-guzzling sport utility vehicles (beyond the requirements established by federal lawmakers), the company's become something of a poster child for corporate responsibility - and a darling of the environmental movement, members of which are pointing to Ford's latest maneuvers as a sign that the very dirty car industry...
...OUTSIDE THE BELTWAY? Can the St. Albans grad and Senator's kid get some outside-the-Beltway elan? A Governor wouldn't hurt BEST: Gray Davis WORST: Dick Gephardt...
...such an eclectic and disparate group. It ranges from venture capital-backed dotcoms to mom-and-pop retailers to family-owned manufacturers. But they all seem to agree on certain things: taxes are too high and too complicated, health insurance is too expensive, and politicians--especially those inside the Beltway--should just go to you-know-where...
...United Nations in 1997, where he served as U.S. ambassador until the Clinton administration called him back to Washington. He was made secretary of energy in 1998, and has spent the last two years coming to the unpleasant realization that the few square miles inside the Beltway can be some of the most treacherous in the land...
Apart from Harvard's plentiful crop of Truman scholars--who are obliged to take a governmental job in D.C. for the summer, at least--it's difficult to find anyone who'll be working inside the Beltway...