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Kevin Casey, a Harvard lobbyist who has actively monitored the legislation, said he expects that Harvard will receive a substantial portion of the estimated $2 billion...
April Burke, a lobbyist for the California Institute of Technology and the University of Southern California, said splitting up the $2 billion among universities will also require deciding what kinds of projects to fund first...
...cozy with Big Business; Democrats are not tax-and-spend liberals; Independents are not eccentric. Sometimes it turns out that the stereotypes are wrong - just not in the Arizona Governor's race. Republican Matt Salmon is running for Governor and until recently was cashing six-figure checks as a lobbyist for Qwest Communications and the city of Phoenix; Democrat Janet Napolitano is the current attorney general who might tax her way out of the state's potential $1 billion budget deficit; Independent Richard Mahoney is recovering after he impaled himself on a steel post while trying...
...when to listen and when not to. He'll hear proposals from both sides, then ignore everybody and find a middle ground he thinks is fair. Then he devotes himself to lobbying the claimants toward his proposal. And let me tell you, he could make a mint as a lobbyist...
...growth nor employment." He also denounced the government's hesitancy to roll back job-protection measures and lift overtime limits linked to the 35-hour workweek. Seillière's criticism of France's nominally business-friendly government was remarkable, since he is not only the nation's leading lobbyist of market liberalization, but also the man who inspired the economic program that helped sweep the conservatives into office last June...