Word: commoners
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...found a unity. Cooley notes, "I think the captain's role in uniting the boat is not as great as the sport's role itself. Whoever it is that's rowing is working towards the same goal--winning. No matter what the background, it's a very, very common bond...
...every Senator, every Representative and every issue in sight." He was talking about corporate political action committees (PACs) which, according to the Federal Election Commission (FEC), contributed over $8 million to the 1978 Congressional elections, far more than in 1976. As Fred Wertheimer, senior vice president of Common Cause has warned, "We're headed for a government of, by and for the corporate PACs of America...
...Common Cause, in a recent publication, "How Money Talks in Congress," has analyzed FEC records. Some of its findings would surely cause our Founding Fathers to turn over in their graves. For example, from January 1975 through July 1978, the nineteen members of the House Banking Subcommittee on Financial Institutions received campaign contributions totaling $343,389 from PACs and individuals associated with financial institutions. No one got less than $1,000. Observes Fred Wertheimer, "PAC money is investment money, and you want to make a smart investment...
...making agencies is another effective means of molding public policy. It has been estimated that special interest groups spend $1 billion annually hiring Washington lobbyists, whose job is to influence the Congress and federal agencies. The exact dollar amoung is unclear because the present lobbying disclosure law is, as Common Cause puts it, "more loophole than...
...MOST COMMON method used in this healthy ridicule is exaggeration, as in the case of stuffed-mind Prince Philip (Paul Redford), who reeks of nobility as he struts onto the set of "Studio...