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Under the proposed ordinance, a neighborhood that previously could build only one facility per 5000 residents would be able to absorb a greater number of people, in several smaller group homes. Smaller community residences have two important advantages: they provide a more personal and supportive environment for guests, and they are less conspicuous in a neighborhood...
...five- second rule"--all background documents must be simple enough to be absorbed by a Congressman at the rate of five seconds per page. It is no wonder that Congress rarely takes the time to debate such crucial national security questions as whether the U.S. really needs to build a 600-ship Navy, as the Reagan Administration contends; most Congressmen are too preoccupied listening to lobbyists for defense contractors telling them how many jobs building new ships will create back in the district...
Even the most reputable influence peddlers use their political connections to build leverage. As director of the 1984 G.O.P. Convention, Lobbyist William Timmons, a quietly genial man who represents such blue- chippers as Boeing, Chrysler, ABC and Anheuser-Busch, controlled access to the podium. G.O.P. Senators lobbied him for prime-time appearances. A Wall Street Journal reporter described Senator Pete Domenici of New Mexico, who was running for re-election in the fall of 1984, thanking Timmons a bit too effusively for allotting time for him to address the convention. "You told me you'd give me a shot," gushed...
Gorbachev has used propaganda organs to build public support before he strikes. In December, Vladimir Promyslov, the de facto mayor of Moscow for 22 years, was forced to resign after the newspaper Sovietskaya Rossiya ran a series of exposes on corruption in the local housing-construction industry. The same articles brought down Viktor Grishin, who was stripped of his job as head of the Moscow city party committee...
...When they created the department, they did not hire sufficient people--they put it together with bits and pieces," says Professor of Sociology James A. Davis. "It was never really viable because of this basic size problem. It has not been able to build up a critical mass, or a consensus," the Winthrop House master says about the 11-member department...