Word: bonners
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Information technology has also revolutionized the form such talk can take. Meet Jack Bonner, voice for hire. On behalf of an interest group, Bonner and Associates can spew 10,000 faxes a night. But Bonner is better known for applying a more personal touch. When he works on a piece of legislation, he first isolates the likely swing votes, then has his software scan a database of the corresponding congressional districts, seeking residents whose profiles suggest sympathy with his cause. When influence is in order -- after, say, a sudden and threatening development at a committee hearing -- his people call these...
...publicly respond to his overture. Earlier today, the Russian defense minister said that his forces would "advance deep into the town with a view to confiscating weapons and eradicating gangs." Meanwhile, the Chechnya offensive seems to be finally sparking some internal protest: Long-time human rights activist Yelena Bonner resigned from President Boris Yeltsin's human rights commission, saying the military's actions marked Russia's return to total
...list ranges from Rhodes Scholars like Kennedy to self-proclaimed "Roads Scholar" Wayne W. Merisel '82, the head of the Bonner Foundation, a charity organization based in Princeton, New Jersey...
Former Drug Enforcement Administration chief Robert Bonner suggested two weeks ago on CBS's 60 Minutes that CIA agents might be criminally liable for failing to stop a Venezuelan official from running drugs to the U.S. CIA officials then tried to persuade the DEA to disavow Bonners remarks, but current DEA officials agree with him. The CIA pleaded that Congress might cut funding for the CIA's covert counternarcotics program, but this argument fell on deaf ears; where covert narcotics operations are concerned, the DEA calls the CIA "amateurs...
...Voss said Jennifer Bonner, an assistant to Evangelous, told him that Evangelous had met both with police department administrator Brian D. Sinclair '62 and Young to discuss his claim. According to an account of the benefits claims process given by Evangelous, Voss's situation could be discussed with Sinclair or other police and security officials but not with Young, who works for the Office of Human Resources...