Word: knights
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...Gore wanted to set up a chair for his late sister at the University of Tennessee. But he needed $500,000 to establish an endowment. Knight, who ran congressional offices for Gore, knew where to find it. In March, 1994, two days before the Energy Department granted $9 million in research funds to Molten Metal Technology, its chairman donated $50,000 to the Nancy Gore Hunger Chair of Excellence in Global Environmental Studies. Knight, then actively lobbying the department for what was a nine-fold increase in the grants, thanked Molten chairman Bill Haney in a March 14 letter, calling...
WASHINGTON: Lobbyist Peter Knight knows that sometimes the best way to get a politician's attention is by waving a checkbook. As Al Gore's money man, in 1996 he set the record for a one-night fund-raiser: $12.5 million...
...business clients were among the party's most generous benefactors. And it was Knight who wrote up many of the "call sheets" prepared for the Vice President's dialing-for-dollars sessions currently under investigation by the Justice Department...
...records obtained by TIME show that two companies for which Knight helped win big contracts at the Energy Department found a novel way of showing gratitude to the Vice President ? call it Gore's campus connection...
...that homosexuals can't change," said Johnston, who is now married and chairs the national event. He said he renounced his homosexuality in 1988 when he realized that his "relationship with Christ was more important than anything in the world." Members of the audience snickered when Robert H. Knight, director of cultural studies for the Family Research Council, said he once had a friend who was alcoholic and "also dabbling in homosexuality...