Word: selling
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Political consulting is a seasonal business, with big money made during campaign years and much less during off years. Consultants who worked for the Reagan-Bush campaigns, however, have solved the cyclical nature of the game by merging it with the influence-peddling business. While most of those who sell access do so only after toiling for the Government at modest wages, these entrepreneurial consultants skip the public-service stopover and move directly from helping elect a politician to selling their ties to him for high fees...
Television has long been the tail that wags the Olympic mastiff. But the 1988 Summer Games may mark the first time it has wagged an entire national time system. Three years ago, while preparing to sell TV rights to the Games, South Korean Olympic officials realized that the rights would be worth more if the country's clocks were moved forward one hour -- thus enabling more daytime events to be seen in prime time in the U.S. Result: last year, for the first time since the 1960s, South Korea instituted daylight saving time...
Obviously, financial donations to Harvard are crucial to maintaining its position as the nation's premier institution of higher learning--not to mention the nation's richest. But if officials give into the temptation to sell bits and pieces to the highest bidder, how can the University maintain any institutional independence and ethical integrity? And how can Harvard preserve its newfound status as an institution based on merit and no longer just status and wealth...
Obviously, financial donations to Harvard are crucial to maintaining its position as the nation's premier institution of higher learning--not to mention the nation's richest. But if officials give into the temptation to sell bits and pieces to the highest bidder, how can the University maintain its institutional independence and its own ethical integrity? And how can Harvard preserve its newfound status as an institution based on merit and no longer just status and wealth...
Underwrite the cost of physically maintaining schools. No student can be expected to thrive in a dingy, dilapidated classroom. Yet many school districts, especially the 600 largest, which enroll 40% of all public-school students, lack the ability to raise sufficient taxes or sell enough bonds to keep their schools up to standard. The Federal Government should make no- interest loans available to tear down or rebuild old buildings and replace them with smaller, more attractive units. School systems would not be permitted to pocket the savings but, in exchange for the aid, would be required to shift their current...