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...World War II pilot turned Democratic Senator from Nevada who lost re-election in 1982 after Teamster members were accused--and later convicted--of offering him a bribe for helping to kill a bill deregulating the trucking industry; in Las Vegas. He insisted he was never approached for a quid pro quo, and he was never indicted...
...Last week's efforts by the Bush administration to press for an Israeli-Palestinian cease-fire were welcomed as a first step, but Arab officials are leery of any quid-pro-quo in which the U.S. solves the Palestinian problem to Arab satisfaction, and Arab governments support an attack on Iraq. Such a deal may be possible at some time down the road, according to Arab diplomats, but not before the Israeli-Palestinian situation has changed dramatically. Indeed, just as many Israeli officials had expressed doubt over the prospects for negotiating with Arafat, so Arab officials have warned that they...
...road building. But members of the LDP, pushed by their construction company patrons, demanded assurances that the fate of each of the more than 2,000 proposed projects will be voted on by the Diet, one by one, which means that most of these roads to nowhere will be quid pro quo'd into existence. "This is his most critical moment," says political analyst Minoru Morita. "He has to compromise with his opponents in order to survive." But every compromise amounts to a nail in the coffin of his once-ambitious reform program...
Fears of some twisted, journalistically unethical quid pro quo fill our minds. We’re relieved to hear our mission: to watch the Benz. A simple enough task...
...administration's energy policy in a way that helps Enron? That's what lobbyists are for, right? "That's what politics are all about," says Steve Milner, managing partner for Squar Milner, a CPA and financial advisory firm in Newport Beach. "The problem is when there's a quid pro quo: I give you money in direct exchange for what I want." Proving that, of course, becomes very problematic, especially since Enron gave to very nearly everyone on the Hill over the past decade...