Word: lobbyist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...controversy erupted shortly after Princeton used the money from the Turkish government to create an Ataturk chair in Turkish Studies. The post was filled by Heath C. Lowry, a lobbyist for the Turkish government and a supporter of the view that Armenian nationalists were killed in a civil war, according to the Globe...
...than in the results of the previous day's off-year elections. He was looking for good news and found little. The message seemed to be that voters are growing leery, even scared, of where Newt Gingrich's revolution may lead. In this environment, says Tom Korologos, a Washington lobbyist and longtime Dole friend, "there may be some room for Bob to be flexible," by which Korologos means that Dole may have "more space" to revert to his truer, less ideological self...
...TAKE-CHARGE LOBBYIST IS scolding White House officials about the President of the United States. "Your boss," she says, "is the Chief Executive of Fantasyland!" In The American President, this speech is mainly a meet-cute device--a way to put lobbyist Sydney Wade (Annette Bening) on a collision course with President Andrew Shepherd (Michael Douglas) before they become friends, lovers and the stuff of tabloid scandal. But the line is also a clue to the politics of this witty romantic comedy, written by Aaron Sorkin (A Few Good Men) and directed by Rob Reiner (When Harry Met Sally...
...been one long nightmare for Dole, especially as leader of a party that is rarely inclined to flirt with renegades or derail front runners. Dole has polled Republicans nationally about Powell. "Like to know what he's up to," he recently told a senior adviser. He told a lobbyist in a private meeting last week that the press will cut Powell "off at the knees" if he gets into the race, that a Dole-Powell ticket, as an alternative, would be "fine with me" and that he wants to finish the budget debate soon because "I need...
...independent counsel investigating former Clinton Agriculture Secretary Mike Espy obtained his first conviction: a guilty plea from a top Republican political insider and lobbyist. James Lake admitted to taking part in an illegal scheme to funnel money to the failed congressional campaign of the Secretary's brother, Henry Espy. Lake allegedly had been asked to help Espy out by a lobbyist for Sun Diamond Growers of California, a client company of Lake's own lobbying firm. The point of the exercise, presumably, was to curry favor with the Agriculture Secretary...