Word: capitol
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...with Secretary of State James Baker's argument that immediate action on the loan guarantees would anger Israel's Arab neighbors and endanger the October Middle East peace conference. Defying the Administration's request for a 120-day delay, however, Jewish lobbying groups and some of their allies on Capitol Hill vowed to push for quick congressional approval...
...William Bennett. He learned from masters, serving first as an aide to Tennessee Senator Howard Baker and then in the Nixon White House before emerging in his own right as a two-term Republican Governor (1979-87). This background gives him a big advantage when he travels to Capitol Hill, as he often does, to lobby for his program. He understands compromise. "I can work with a guy like that," says William Ford, the crusty House education committee chairman...
Though it reigned over the freewheeling government-securities market, once mighty Salomon Brothers now finds itself on terrain every bit as treacherous as Wall Street. Last week the firm's interim chief executive, Warren Buffett, was summoned along with financial regulators to Capitol Hill for the first public hearings on illegal bond-bidding practices revealed last month. Inquiring congressional committee members had nothing but praise for Buffett's efforts at reform. Beyond firing or suspending top executives, Salomon departed from past practices and decided against paying them compensation, severance or their future legal expenses. Buffett also revealed during testimony that...
...carrot or a stick abroad, the result is almost always a domestic brawl. "There are simply too many voices and competing interests on our side to deliver a clear, coherent, timely message," says Paula Stern, a former head of the U.S. International $ Trade Commission. A fire-breathing anticommunist on Capitol Hill may want to starve America's enemies into submission, but a farm-state legislator would prefer to sell them his constituents' grain...
CHOPPING BLOCK. Angry because some songs were cut from the U.S. versions of previous albums, the Beatles posed for Yesterday and Today in butcher's smocks with pieces of meat. Capitol Records pasted a different photo over the cover...