Word: concessioners
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The Democrats have to contend with their own throng of special interests. Hundreds of lobbyists who failed to win concessions from the White House began lining up three hours early for the first congressional hearing on Reagan's proposal. "I'm walking in an egg field," frets Rostenkowski, a master...
Stadium owners, reluctant to lose money by banning beer, have responded with an assortment of other palliative efforts. Veterans' Stadium in Philadelphia hires off-duty police to roam the stands and see that drunks are cut off. The Capital Centre in Landover, Md., provides free rides home for the inebriated...
White House aides insisted that Reagan had known all along he would have to give on military spending and had been following his often repeated theory of effective bargaining: ask for more than you can get and offer not even the slightest hint of concession until absolutely sure you have...
Then, in a surprising move, a majority of Democrats turned on their own bill in its final vote. One reason: they wanted to guarantee that the measure could not emerge from conference committee, where it would have been reconciled with the Senate bill, in a form that included some aid...
The real story was well told by Patrick Flaherty, a graduate student member of the ACSR, in a Crimson article March 3, 1982. Harvard's policy of divesting from banks making direct loans to the South African government had been adopted as a limited concession to student demands for total...