Word: benjamin
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...House Government Operations Subcommittee on Commerce, Consumer and Monetary Affaris held hearings on the subject of grassroots lobbying. Congressman Benjamin Rosenthal (D-N.Y.), chairman of the subcommittee, estimated that "substantially more than $1 billion is spent each year by all interest groups on grassroots lobbying." A very high percentage of this is spent by corporations and trade associations. It takes the form of print and electronic media advertisements as well as communications with employees and shareholders. Questions of public policy are discussed, a position is advocated and often letters to Congressmen are urged...
...quite the innocent she was in her past lives. She divides her evenings between the discos and one-night stands, popping uppers and downers as if they were Good & Plenties and generally leading a thoroughly disorganized life. She has been having an affair with her analyst (Richard Benjamin) for years, but both are beset by the modern inability to make a genuine commitment. He, it turns out, is a descendant of Dr. Van Helsing, Dracula's old nemesis from the book, play and sequels. The analyst perceives his beloved's peril (three bites from the count...
...China: Tradition and Transformation," Benjamin I. Schwartz, Philip A. Kuhn and Edwin O. Reischauer...
...flourishes cut by The New York Times's good, gray copy desk, he can't resist opening the floodgates. He writes of Harry Chandler as though he were the archetypical tycoon, when, actually, even more grotesque immorality founded thousands of American fortunes in these same years--Horatio Alger and Benjamin Franklin notwithstanding. Halberstam goes on (and on) to maintain that the Chandlers "in effect invented" Southern California, just like their political hired-gun/reporter Kyle Palmer invented Richard Nixon in the late 1940s, just like the Times's protective coverage of Nixon made him the paranoid schizo he turned...
Princeton coach Dave Benjamin seemed thankful for the Navy scare yesterday. "Two good things happened to us this year. The Navy match shocked us out of any complacency we may have had, and Harvard beat Yale so decisively that we really have a tremendous amount of motivation. We're higher for this match than for any league match this year, and maybe for any match all year...