Word: interest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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From the outset, though, we have to get a little conflict of interest out of the way. Bill Roberts is my roommate. For the better part of four years the two of us have watched from the sidelines as three other roommates, captain Kevin Shaw, two-man Andy Chaikovsky, and reserve Dick Arnos, have shared the Harvard tennis spotlight...
Representative government on Capitol Hill is in the worst shape I have seen it in my sixteen years in the Senate. The heart of the problem is that the Senate and the House are awash in a sea of special interest campaign contributions and special interest lobbying...
...ironic that in passing the campaign "reform laws of the 1970s, Congress claimed to be cleaning up politics and removing special interest influence. In some ways, the result has been quite the opposite. With political parties becoming less effective fund raising agents for candidates, and with the $1000 limit on individual contributions, corporate PACs have become a major source of funding in Congressional campaigns. And the room for further growth is tremendous. Two thirds of the 500 largest industrial firms have yet to form a PAC. Business is quickly leaving the once dominant labor union PACs far behind...
Lobbying our legislators and rule-making agencies is another effective means of molding public policy. It has been estimated that special interest groups spend $1 billion annually hiring Washington lobbyists, whose job is to influence the Congress and federal agencies. The exact dollar amoung is unclear because the present lobbying disclosure law is, as Common Cause puts it, "more loophole than...
...drama that Alexander Woodcock and Monte Davis hail the arrival of catastrophe theory, a methodology as different from traditional science as Marxism was from existing economic thought. Since its formulation around 1964, catastrophe theory has emerged as one of few mathematical breakthroughs in recent times to arouse public interest. The controversy lies in its claim to have broadened the scope of science to include the social sciences and humanities, uniting such diverse phenomena as the collapse of a bridge, the crash of the stock market, and the fall of the Roman empire. Yet its subject is not always "catastrophic...