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...that were already doing the right kind of work and inviting them to join the new group. They went to Pasadena, where the California Institute of Technology operated its little-known Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), and extended an invitation there. They made the same offer up the coast at Moffett Field, Calif., where the military operated its Ames Research Center, and also gathered up the government's missile test range at Cape Canaveral, Fla. and the Huntsville Arsenal in Alabama...
...Moffett Field was a thriving military base decades ago, serving as an airfield and housing planes, blimps and soldiers alike. Since then, however, it has turned into a mixture of abandoned asbestos-filled buildings, cracked tennis courts, and an abandoned bowling alley juxtaposed against beautiful homes available for rent to military families, the world’s largest wind tunnel, and, of course, a McDonalds...
Reva P. Minkoff ’08, a Crimson editorial editor and former Crimson Staff Director, is a government concentrator in Pforzheimer House. She is working for Google this summer in a building about two miles away from the main gate of Moffett Field...
...lobbyist who has maintained close ties with her former boss, New York's Charles Rangel, incoming chairman of the Ways and Means Committee. Pelosi's former chief of staff, George Crawford, has just been hired by Amgen, a biotech company, to represent its interests with the new Congress. Toby Moffett, a former Democratic Congressman from Connecticut now with the Livingston Group, says he recently told a Republican lobbyist desperate to hire Democrats that he had two options: "One is to go after [congressional] staff members who are thinking of leaving, maybe someone with tuitions to pay. The second...
...connect. Members of Congress know their job security depends on the money they raise before each election, and much of that comes from K Street. "The dirty little secret is that the biggest lobby in town is members of Congress lobbying us," says the Livingston Group's Moffett. Moffett says he bumped into a powerful Senator last spring. They sat on a bench overlooking the city and talked about Moffett's clients. After a few minutes, Moffett gave the Senator his card. By the time the lobbyist got back to his office, the Senator's campaign staff had sent...