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FOR A COMEDIAN who isn't funny, Steve Martin has made quite a career for himself With the money he's made from Saturday Night Live, movie appearances, and records, you'd think he could finally afford to hire writers to make his material funny, but no--Martin is an...
Chrysler hired a lobbying army of some of the most sophisticated and experienced mercenaries in Washington. Among them were William Timmons, lobbyist for both Nixon and Ford; Joe Waggonner, who retired last year from his position as ranking Southerner on the Ways and Means Committee so he would "have more...
Boggs and the Chrysler lobbying contingent indeed deal in facts--very selectively. The responsibility for Chrysler's failure, according to its own fact sheets, rests squarely on the federal government. Boggs says that the massive expenditures required to meet the government's pollution, safety and fuel economy standards have hit...
Boggs says that the person who objects to federal aid on the grounds that Chrysler has not made enough sacrifices or because the company bears much of the blame for its own downfall "is a much less difficult problem than someone who has a philosophical objection" to a federal bail...
The politicians then took a studiedly stern look at Chrysler's proposal. After all, barging into the free market system on behalf of a declining concern violated every tenet of what is supposed to be America's survival-of-the-fittest economy. And the politicians seemed to take a hard...