Word: lobbyists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...King surprised his host by disclosing that he had agreed to buy SA-6 antiaircraft missiles from the Soviets. Altogether, the week's news reinforced an impression that the Administration is improvising day to day in Middle East diplomacy rather than following a careful strategy. Said one American lobbyist for Israel, alluding to U.S. efforts to build a radar-eluding airplane: "Reagan's Middle East policy is like the Stealth-you can't see it or hear it, but it sure bombs...
...Democrat Russell ("Sugar Ray") Long of Louisiana, who is fighting for sugar price supports in the pending farm bill and is notorious among his colleagues for trying to get the most mileage for his votes. Republican Charles Grassley of Iowa said that he hung up on White House Lobbyist Powell Moore when Moore linked the AWACS vote to the nomination of Grassley's candidate for U.S. Attorney in Iowa. All three Senators ended up with the President, but the White House insists that it was not because any side deals were made...
...charge that as Vice President Johnson was sent, through one of his aides, a $50,000 cash contribution is not new, even though the Atlantic issued a press release touting the disclosure. Gulf Oil Lobbyist Claude Wild Jr. testified in 1975 that he made such political donations. Caro says that his three-volume biography - the 30,000-word article was excerpted from the first volume, to be published next fall - will be extensively footnoted. His book The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York, which won the 1975 Pulitzer Prize for biography, is meticulously documented...
...union turf. While only 44% of all U.S. coal is dug by members of the United Mine Workers of America, down from 70% a decade ago, some 99% of Illinois coal is union mined. The legendary John L. Lewis rose to the presidency of the U.M.W. as a legislative lobbyist from the union's Illinois District 12, which includes Galatia. Since the Iowa-born Lewis first arrived in 1908, the dirtiest four-letter word in coal country has been scab...
...excuses ferryboat operators. For those who must serve, the first thing to learn is to wait. "It's waiting for the judge, waiting for the lawyers, waiting to be called. It's not amusing or fun; it's just a duty," says Gwen Pritchard, a Washington lobbyist, standing in the hallway of the District of Columbia courthouse. "It's 300 people doing nothing," says another would-be juror, Libby Gallagher, as she watches her neighbors playing cards, knitting, staring into space...