Word: mazes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...patter, or they were consciously, and cunningly, manipulating a friendly overture into a "sale." This kind of superficiality is nauseating even in vacuum salesmen. A religious faith should be an unadorned conviction to be candidly and sincerely shared; it should not be the tail-end proposition of a maze of small-talk...
...millions back to his homeland --is fraught with difficulties. For one thing, the Philippines does not have an extradition treaty with the U.S. For another, said Jovito Salonga, chairman of the Commission on Good Government, it will not be easy to disentangle the "layers of corporations" and the maze of intermediaries that Marcos used as a front. "Not once do you find the name of Marcos on any of the New York papers," said Salonga in a conversation with TIME editors in New York. "He's a very clever lawyer." The chase abroad promised to be no less complicated...
Such victories inspire other loophole-seeking businessmen to hire guides through the congressional maze, at any price. There is no shortage of hungry lobbyists ready to relieve them of their money. "You get hustlers in Washington who get hooked up with hustlers outside of Washington, and the money moves very quickly," says Peter Teeley, former press aide to Vice President George Bush and now a Washington p.r. man. "Some people are getting ripped off." Says Senator Pryor: "Businessmen are very, very naive. It's amazing what they pay these lobbyists. The businessmen panic. They really don't understand Washington...
Foreign governments are particularly eager to retain savvy Washington insiders to guide them through the bureaucratic and congressional maze and polish their sometimes unsavory images in the U.S. The Marcos government in the Philippines has retained the well-connected lobbying firm of Black, Manafort & Stone for a reported fee of $900,000. Another Black, Manafort client is Angolan Rebel Jonas Savimbi (see box). Not to be outdone, the Marxist regime of Angola hired Bob Gray's firm to front for it in Washington. Two years ago, Gray told TIME that he checks with his "good friend," CIA Director William Casey...
...masters of the Ministry of Information tyrannize the populace, they in turn are tyrannized by the maze of technology in which they live. No machine works properly, from elevators which stop and start at random, to air conditioners which alternately broil and freeze their victims. The intrusion of technology into daily life is visible in the presence of giant, serpentine ducts which protrude into every living space, from the richest apartment to the lowliest hovel...