Word: lobbyist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...more vulnerable than adults to pesticides because their bodies are still maturing. Cells are rapidly dividing, and organs, like the liver, may not be as efficient in removing toxic chemicals. "We must revise all existing tolerances and set the levels for children," says Janet Hathaway, the NRDC's chief lobbyist in Washington. "We should be able to eat food without worrying that we are sowing the seeds of cancer...
Many Black colleges are in financial trouble and need help from the federal government, said Althea T. L. Simmons, chief lobbyist and director of the Washington branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). Simmons said the NAACP would lobby for more funding because the budget proposal did not allocate sufficient money for the program...
...impish smile and baby face, Brown, 47, hardly looks like an agent of historic change. He has an outsize mustache, a quick wit and an ability to energize any room he enters, traits that conjure up comparisons with Jackson. But his hands are those of a polished Washington lobbyist: when he speaks, his left hand rests casually in his pocket while his right hand ticks off the logical points he wants to make; when he listens, his palms press together as he taps his fingers thoughtfully. At a lectern, he talks rather than preaches. On a couch, his relaxed body...
...Brown is viewed by some as Jesse Jackson's man. But in his race to be chairman of the Democratic Party, the polished lobbyist is running on his own record...
...that the stock market is still edgy after its collapse. Wall Street showed just how nervous it was when stocks dropped nearly 79 points in the week that George Bush was elected President. "Nobody wants to be blamed for setting off another stock market crash," says a brokerage-house lobbyist. Legislators are still haunted by charges that proposals to restrain takeovers last year helped cause Black Monday. Many Wall Street insiders are now convinced that buyouts and mergers are among the market's few remaining props...