Word: firm
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...Washington and Atlanta and $50,000 when he has to travel. "Every audience gets it," he bubbled in an interview last week. "In the country at large, there is an understanding that the old order is crumbling. I love it!" He also has a corporate consulting firm, a syndicated radio show and a perch as a commentator on Fox News...
...seems to be at work in California, where, according to attorney general Bill Lockyer, the company hired a former state senator who is "a very close friend of mine." In West Virginia, Microsoft has taken a tougher tack. According to attorney general Darrell McGraw, it has hired a lobbying firm run by someone McGraw defeated in an earlier race; the lobbyists have attacked him repeatedly, he says...
...build support around the country, Microsoft brought on staff a veteran of Direct Impact, a D.C.-area firm whose clients have included the tobacco industry, managed-care companies and others who want "grass-roots" responses generated on issues. Another addition: Tom Synhorst, a political operative and phone-bank virtuoso who does projects for George W. Bush. And there's evidence of Microsoft's courting business and political players at the smallest levels. In September, senior vice president Craig Mundie spoke to the Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Chamber of Commerce, drawing an overflow crowd of about 900. Last month former Republican National...
...Gore's senior advisers, top-tier lobbyist Peter Knight, is a hired gun for pharmaceuticals giant Schering-Plough, which is in a red-hot battle to stretch out its patent for the best-selling allergy medication Claritin beyond 2002. The New Jersey-based company paid Knight's firm $100,000 in the first half of this year alone...
Schering-Plough's effort may be dead for this year. At a Judiciary Committee panel meeting last week, held out of view in a Capitol hideaway, Senator Patrick Leahy objected to moving the bill. Knight says he is closing down his firm to spend more time on the Gore campaign. But Schering-Plough is expected to continue the battle next year. If it loses again, the company has that contingency covered too: the FDA is currently considering its new super-Claritin for market approval. Its patent wouldn't expire until...