Word: hills
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Capitol Hill's resurgent concern about U.S. competitiveness and the hard work of University lobbyists, Harvard scientists can continue their experiments confidentally. After months of budgetary debate, the Reagan Administration and Congress plan to boost funding for such work by an unprecedented amount this year...
...sale of the O'Brien Properties toHarvard has generated some apprehension among someof the tenants there. "Everybody's nervous aboutwhat a new landlord can do," said Jonathan B. Hill'73, owner of Brodie's car rental, who said hemust renegotiate his lease in three months...
...colleges and universities recently have concentrated their efforts in Washington on financial matters, with lobbyists going to Capitol Hill to plead for everything from student financial aid to scientific research to tax exemptions. They have adopted lobbying techniques pioneered by selfish special interests, although such tactics are understandable in light of the Reagan Administration's hostility...
...winning the battle, the nation's colleges and universities may have lost the war. Senators and Congressmen interviewed last week, for example, expressed negative feelings toward "the higher education lobby." It is apparent that in resorting to mundane and "dirty" tactics on Capitol Hill, American colleges and universities have lost much of the credibility that lies at the heart of their influence with the nation's legislators and indeed with the people...
When he testified on Capitol Hill as the first witness in the Iran-contra hearings, retired Air Force Major General Richard Secord portrayed himself as a patriotic private citizen recruited by the White House to help support the Nicaraguan contras after Congress had cut off U.S. Government assistance. Although Secord told his story without insisting on immunity from prosecution, last week he assailed the hearings in a Wall Street Journal column, calling the proceedings an "obscene spewing of information and misinformation" and an example of the nation's "periodic, spasmodic flirtation with self- destruction...