Word: deconcini
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...sales totaled $1.9 billion last year, and will balloon to $4 billion by 2002, according to a market analyst. To keep the money coming in, the company doubled its lobbying outlay starting in 1996 to more than $4 million in 1998. Among its other paid advocates: former Senator Dennis DeConcini; former Watergate assistant special prosecutor Richard Ben-Veniste; and Thomas Parry, former chief of staff for Senator Orrin Hatch, who heads the Judiciary Committee that considers such requests. Hatch has used Schering-Plough's Gulfstream IV jet five times this year for his presidential campaign, reimbursing the company at first...
ROME: All roads leading to the Palazzo Margherita are clogged with well-connected Italian-American legislators. The triumvirate of contenders: ex-Arizona Senator Dennis DeConcini, ex-New Jersey Representative Frank Guarini and Pennsylvania Representative Thomas Foglietta...
Keating's pretensions had a pious side too: a devout Roman Catholic, he gave millions in personal and corporate funds to charities, including Mother Teresa. Former Senator Dennis DeConcini, whose political career was wrecked by his association with Keating, remembers meeting Mother Teresa in Washington: "I introduced myself as coming from Arizona, and she asked, 'How is my friend Charlie...
...timing caught the White House by surprise, but the resignation was not unwelcome. Woolsey had barely been on speaking terms the past two years with outgoing Senate Intelligence Committee chairman Dennis DeConcini. Earlier this fall, sources told TIME, eight Republican and Democratic Senators on the committee secretly debated going to the White House to ask that Woolsey be fired. "He wasn't pushed," insisted a Clinton aide. But that was only because Clinton had lately been occupied replacing the departing Secretaries of the Treasury and Agriculture, the Democratic Party chairman and several top White House officials. White House aides...
...been voting for deep cuts in the defense budget, had asked only that spending for intelligence operations at the CIA, the Pentagon and other agencies remain at the previous year's level of about $28 billion. "Woolsey felt like he knew best, and nobody could tell him otherwise," says DeConcini...