Word: lobbyist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...church organist, teacher of a women's class, a devoted wife and the mother of four. Energetic, attractive and dutiful, Sonia Johnson, 43, seemed the very model of a modern Mormon matron. But she was also a militant lobbyist for the Equal Rights Amendment. Last week, apparently as a result, she found herself excommunicated from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Sterling Park, Va. She can still attend services, but can take no active part in the life of the congregation. More important, Mormons believe that if she does not repent and get rebaptized...
...nine Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court meet to discuss and vote on cases on Friday mornings, they begin with 'he simple ritual of shaking hands. Then they sit down to decide on some of the nation's most sensitive, sometimes most divisive issues. No reporter, no lobbyist, no aide, not even a messenger is allowed in the paneled conference room. The Justices are left alone to argue the law, their principles, their consciences. Theirs is not an abstract debate: comfortably hazy concepts like ''liberty'' and ''equality'' must be applied...
...point across--whether it be a bill in Congress or a regulation in front of a federal agency--it sends its skilled lobbying troops down to Capitol Hill. Harvard's office of government relations, says Robin Schmidt, vice president for government and community affairs, tries to serve as lobbyist for Radcliffe too. "In the community," Schmidt says, Radcliffe "is indivisible as far as we're concerned...
...unified voice" for women's colleges. The WCC, founded in 1972 as a project of the Association of American Colleges, functions both as an information source and an advocate for single-sex education, director Sharp explains. In the past year, however, its scope has expanded past what one Washington lobbyist labels "pure public relations." Last month, for example, the WCC sponsored a day-long conference in Washington which brought together a variety of HEW officials and women's college presidents, including Horner. Following an opening address from Harris, the group discussed a variety of policy and program options in women...
...School Committee has been solid; he supports vacancy decontrol, has had experience in fighting racism and wants to draw the city's diverse elements together. But Finnegan seems overly sympathetic to the needs of the private sector. His embarrassing resignation from his $20,000 a year job as a lobbyist for the tobacco industry is only symptomatic of such leanings...