Word: prevent
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...willing President Carter. Since the bill has the backing of the administration and the Democratic party leadership in the House of Representatives, it was expected to pass easily this year. Instead, a massive lobbying effort led by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce has maintained enough potential "nay" votes to prevent Thomas P. O'Neill (D-Mass.), the speaker of the House, from bringing the bill to a vote...
...They have waged the most intense lobbying I have ever seen against any bill," Rosenthal said this summer. Without an effective lobbying strategy of their own, consumerists might have been unable to prevent the protection agency bill from suffering the same fate as the common situs picketing legislation backed by organized labor and killed by Congress last spring...
...prevent a similar upset, Nader approved what was for him an entirely new brand of lobbying--an old-fashioned grass-roots campaign with a new twist. Nader has spent a decade as a photogenic political entrepreneur, using the media to his best advantage as he lambasted what he saw as the many wasteful and dangerous practices of some of the world's largest and most powerful corporations. But propped up by institutions and the national media, and supported by a vague national majority. Nader has done most of his very effective lobbying along the corridors of Columbia and has felt...
...noted only briefly that the comptroller's office had found some problems at the Calhoun bank?a reference Bloom claimed should have been taken as a "red flag." He certainly did; he kept documents related to those problems locked in a safe in his bathroom, of all places, to prevent them from being leaked...
Dangerous as a defeat would have been to Callaghan, the victory, ironically, assured very little. The decision on the twelve-month rule is nonbinding; the T.U.C. has no power to prevent an individual union from breaching it. Workers on the factory floor hold the key to any policy of restraint by individual unions, and just now they are in a rebellious mood. After the congress, some union leaders hinted that they were fully prepared to flout the twelve-month rule; Arthur Scargill, Communist leader of the Yorkshire miners, said, "This decision makes no difference to the miners' wage claim...