Word: lobbyist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...many concessions to A T & T in their rush to wrap up the case before the new President took office. Said William McGowan, chairman of MCI Telecommunications, which is battling Bell for the long-distance telephone market: "It sounds like a slap on the wrist." Added Herbert Jasper, Washington lobbyist for a group of telecommunications companies: "It appears to be a free ride...
...Morning Executive Producer Elliot Bernstein. So far, however, no one has dared intrude upon the Captain, whose real name is Robert Keeshan. Captain Kangaroo draws even fewer viewers than Morning. But children's programming is popular with politicians and Washington broadcasting bureaucrats, and Keeshan has proved a powerful lobbyist on the upper floors of the CBS Building in Manhattan. Nevertheless, CBS News President William Leonard is hopeful. Says he: "I just do a lot of praying...
...served in the Nixon and Ford Administrations. These include George Shultz, former Treasury Secretary and now vice chairman of Bechtel Corp.; Alan Greenspan, Ford's top economic aide and currently a private New York consultant; and Charls Walker, onetime Deputy Secretary of the Treasury and a powerful Washington lobbyist. Anderson's economic advisers are relative unknowns. His main aide is Robert Walker, a legislative assistant on his congressional staff...
...legislature cutting off funds for prostate operations," Karen Hudner, a Civil Liberties Union lobbyist, said yesterday...
...people are unhappy with Harvard's image as the tough guy among the universities who move in Washington circles," one lobbyist who asked not to be identified said last night...