Word: beltways
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...RAISE CASH... Abramoff tended to pick clients far removed from the Beltway who were sometimes either too desperate or too unfamiliar with the lobbying trade to question his unorthodox tactics and exorbitant fees...
...Galley Girl is way outside of the Beltway - if I were a Washington reporter, would I recognize everyone in the book...
DIED. JACK ANDERSON, 83, Pulitzer prizewinning journalist whose muckraking columns terrified Beltway politicians for more than a half-century; in Bethesda, Md. A devout Mormon who viewed his work as a calling, Anderson often enraged his powerful subjects with his syndicated "Washington Merry-Go-Round" column, which broke stories like the Reagan Administration's arms-for-hostages deal with Iran and the secret transcripts of the Watergate grand jury. Richard Nixon put Anderson on his "enemies" list, prompting Nixon aide G. Gordon Liddy to devise a plan to murder him. Still, when Anderson's work on Watergate resulted in arrests...
...White House spokesman Scott McClellan dismissed Novak’s claim on Thursday. “I don’t know what he’s basing it on,” McClellan said.Novak and Woodward are among the highest-profile and best-connected journalists in the Beltway, and both men have been said to maintain warmer-than-usual relationships with the Bush administration. The leak in Novak’s column prompted an investigation by special prosecutor Patrick J. Fitzgerald, a 1985 graduate of Harvard Law School, which has thus far resulted in the indictment of I. Lewis...
...DUKE) CUNNINGHAM, 63, eight-term Congressman from San Diego, California; to accepting $2.4 million from military contractors in bribes that included a Rolls-Royce, mortgage payments and an antique French commode; in Washington. The tough-on-crime Republican, who in July vowed to fight all charges, stunned even jaded Beltway insiders with his tearful confession. "I cannot undo what I have done," said Cunningham, who faces up to 10 years in prison. "But I can atone...