Word: friendships
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...White House insists that Deaver violated no regulation, since he worked for the White House Office, a small but separate entity in the Executive Office, which includes OMB. Besides, huffed Deaver, if he had truly wanted to trade on his friendship, "I wouldn't have wasted my time on Jim Miller. I would have gone right over to the President...
Kerri Green, as a transfer student from another school, is the fair maiden. Initially, she is drawn into a summer friendship with Lucas, sharing his love of classical music and biological oddities. But, alas, she becomes distant as she is caught up in the whirl of high school activities once classes begin...
...MAKE THINGS more difficult, Lucas isn't the only one after the fair maiden. Cap (Charlie Sheen--yes, another member of the family), is also interested. The pregnant irony of this triangle, an irony that could have been better developed, is that Cap and Maggie are united in their friendship with Lucas and the sensitivity which they acquire through him. Lucas, in a sense, creates his own romantic downfall...
...elections. But Congress is not likely to vote for these reforms any time soon, in large part because as incumbents they can almost always raise more money than challengers can. Certainly, most Congressmen have become wearily resigned to living with lobbyists. They are sources of money, political savvy, even friendship. In the jaded culture of Washington, influence peddlers are more envied than disdained. Indeed, to lawmakers on the Hill and policymakers throughout the Executive Branch, the feeling increasingly seems to be: well, if you can't beat 'em, join...
...superlobbyist like Robert Gray, a former minor official in the Eisenhower Administration who parlayed his promotional genius and friendship with the Reagans into a $20 million-a-year p.r. and lobbying outfit, is in the papers more than most congressional committee chairmen. He would have his clients believe that he is at least as powerful. "In the old days, lobbyists never got any publicity," says Veteran Lobbyist Maurice Rosenblatt, who has prowled the halls of Congress for several decades. "Congressmen didn't want to be seen with notorious bagmen. But now, he shrugs, "the so-called best lobbyists...