Word: lobbyists
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...disaster off Santa Barbara, where an oil well blew off a piece of the sea floor and coated miles of California beaches and thousands of sea birds with sticky crude. So far, environmentalists have not tried to block drilling activity at the new discovery site. Says John Zierold, chief lobbyist for the Sierra Club in California: "We have to await the results of some tests. We're not going to shoot from the hip on this...
Supporters of the proposed anti-seizure bill, however, such as the New England Anti-Vivisection League and the Massachusetts Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, have been campaigning for 10 years to curb such practices. "The argument is one of humanity," said Edward Cotter, the legislative lobbyist for the proposed bill. "Many of these dogs were once people's pets," he said...
DIED. Craig Hosmer, 67, querulous, staunchly conservative California Congressman from 1952 to 1974, who was among the nation's most outspoken, knowledgeable supporters of nuclear energy, first in Congress and later as a Washington lobbyist for the American Nuclear Energy Council; of a heart at tack; on a cruise ship off California en route to Mexico...
...includes a statement of intent declaring that the burden will be kept to a minimum--most likely that institutions will have to ask students whether they have registered, but leaving the verification up to the feds. "They have given us an adequate framework," says Charles F. Saunders, a lobbyist for the American Council on Education...
Over eleven years Watt held Washington jobs that honed his expertise and his ideology. As a U.S. Chamber of Commerce lobbyist, he worked to defeat all manner of environmental regulation. In the Nixon and Ford Administrations he served a well-rounded apprenticeship: as an Interior deputy in charge of water management, as director of the department's land-buying Bureau of Outdoor Recreation and, finally, as a federal power commissioner. As a result, Secretary Watt's technical mastery of his job is positively staggering...