Word: lobbyist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Government and Community relations office stayed on the sidelines (except for a plea from chief lobbyist Roger Moore before the committee that reviewed the bill), but opposition still surfaced. Delays snagged the bill all along the line until, in the mad rush that annually preceeds adjournment, the bill turned up again in the fray. Someone in the governor's office--speculation centered on legislative aide and Harvard alumnus Neil Lynch-- managed to get the bill returned to the floor of the senate. Only appeals from old King friends, City Manager James L. Sullivan, State Sen. Michael LoPresti, and a host...
...conservatives who saw a strong campaign issue and made the most of it, reports TIME Congressional Correspondent Neil MacNeil. The idea originated with Charls Walker, tax lobbyist for a number of big corporations and now a Reagan adviser. Walker sent a memo to Reagan headquarters last month to urge action, and when Reagan went to Chicago two weeks ago for a meeting with top strategists, he made his pitch in person. "There's no question we need this," said Reagan. "Any negatives?" "No negatives," said Walker. "Let's do it," said Reagan...
What would be fulfillment enough for almost any violinist-to be one of the world's leading virtuosos-is for Stern merely a starting point. He is also a tireless advocate of causes, a godfather to young talent, a lobbyist, a fund raiser and a supreme power broker in the music world, albeit a rather puckish, cherubic one. "I've never been able to live in a cocoon," he says. "I have a long buttinsky nose." In Yiddish-one of the six languages he either speaks or understands -the expression is a kochleffl (a stirrer...
...dummy insurance company in Bev erly Hills, Calif. Called Fidelity Financial Consul tants, the "firm" was run by Joseph Hauser, a convicted insurance swindler who was cooperating with the FBI in hopes of gaining early pa role. Hauser was introduced to Marcello by a Washington lobbyist named I. Irving Davidson; the Mafia don allegedly agreed to try to bribe Louisiana officials to obtain insurance contracts for Fidelity and then split the commissions with Hauser and Davidson...
...have promised to barricade the roads leading north. Analysts point out that the administration has not made careful plans in case of massive non-compliance. The Justice Department is not equipped to catch up with large numbers of non-registrants. Even if it did find all the offenders, one lobbyist points out, the sudden barrage of 200,000 felony cases would saturate the nation's courts...