Word: interests
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...ethics overhaul had called for a ban on honoraria to members of Congress for speaking engagements or similar work. Such honoraria provide thousands of dollars in outside income for senators and representatives in a system that critics, including Bush's ethics panel, contend allows for too much special interest influence on the representatives...
Bush's proposal is expected to cover matters such as outside income, conflicts of interest, financial disclosure, enforcement and restrictions on what executive branch employees can do after they leave the government...
...supplemental appropriation does not include $37.3 million for interest payments on loans, and the legislature may therefore need to draw up a second supplemental budget to cover these costs...
...former colleague of theirs at the investment firm Drexel Burnham Lambert, with a total of 98 felony counts of stock manipulation, insider trading, racketeering and other crimes. The indictment calls for the three accused to forfeit their total compensation of $1.5 billion for 1984 through 1987 (plus interest of $257 million) and pay fines of $3.7 billion. If convicted on all counts, Milken could face a maximum prison sentence of 520 years...
...Soviet system has aroused the interest and attention of the whole world as, perhaps, the most unusual and frightening phenomenon of the 20th century. It is frightening because it lays claim to the future of all humanity and seizes more and more countries and spheres of influence, considering itself the ideal and ordained end of the historical development of the entire world. It is so new, strong and extraordinary that at times even people nurtured in her womb, her children so to speak, perceive it as if it were some sort of monstrosity or invasion from Mars, to which...