Word: directing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...also still chats regularly on the phone with Nancy Reagan. But Deaver insists that he never discusses his clients' problems with the First Lady or the President. Actually, Deaver says, he does not do much lobbying. Nor does he do any public relations work, or legislative drafting, or direct mail, or polling, or any of the sorts of services performed by most high-powered influence shops. So what exactly does...
Lobbyists call themselves lawyers, government-affairs specialists, public relations consultants, sometimes even lobbyists. They offer a wide array of increasingly sophisticated services, from drafting legislation to creating slick advertisements and direct-mail campaigns. But what enables the big-time influence peddlers to demand upwards of $400 an hour is their connections. "I'll tell you what we're selling," says Lobbyist Frank Mankiewicz. "The returned phone call...
...Congressmen became more independent of committee chairmen and party chieftains, they have tended to listen more to the folks back home. Predictably, however, lobbyists have skillfully found ways to manipulate so- called grass-roots support. Direct-mail outfits, armed with computer banks that are stocked with targeting groups, can create "instant constituencies" for special-interest bills. To repeal a 1982 provision requiring tax withholding on dividends and interest, the small banks and thrifts hired a mass-mailing firm to launch a letter-writing campaign that flooded congressional offices with some 22 million pieces of mail. The bankers' scare tactics were...
...desire to purge the military of corruption. Reformers bridle at the charge. "Politics is for the politicians and the people," says one reformer. The Philippine military, he insists, is trying to heal itself, "and if it finally does, we hope that there will be some good guys around to direct it." Ramos and Enrile, it would seem, might be happy to take on that task...
...crackdown was sparked by a petition drive mounted by opposition leaders. Its aim: revision of the 1980 South Korean constitution to allow direct election of the President, instead of the current electoral-college system, which allegedly favors Chun's ruling party. Chun, for his part, wants a moratorium on political reform until after the 1988 Olympics in Seoul. Scoffs Kim Young Sam: "To say that the nation should absorb all the government madness until 1988 is to say that Korea could go to pieces after the Olympics...