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...Congress outlawed corporate contributions to candidates for federal elective office. It is still illegal for a corporation to make political donations out of its internal funds. But the Federal Eleaction Act of 1971 permitted the use of corporate money for "the establishment, administration and solicitation of contributions to a separate, segregated fund to be utilized for a political purpose." Following clarifying amendments in 1974 and a favorable advisory opinion by the FED in 1975, corporations by the hundreds began forming PACs. Today, over 800 corporate PACs use company funds to solicit "voluntary" contributions from the ranks of management and stockholders...
Archie C. Epps III, dean of students, said yesterday he denied CARP access to buildings on campus because members of the association denied their affiliation with Moon's Unification Church at meetings with Epps and continued to solicit on University premises after being asked...
...Companies that mine and use coal formed it with environmental leaders, and together they reached productive compromises to speed the digging and burning of coal. Similarly, Diebold's clients ponder the example of Pennsylvania Power & Light and Canada's Ontario Hydro. Before building a power plant, they solicit citizen volunteers to examine a number of sites and pick the one that seems the most desirable-and environmentally safest. Perhaps other corporations would be wise to join with real or potential critics instead of fighting them so hard...
...capped his policy of stifling student involvement when he asked the Core committee two weeks ago not to divulge any information even about the 38 courses that had already been approved by the group. The few students who serve on the standing committee or its subcommittees were forbidden to solicit opinions about proposed courses from fellow undergraduates...
...corporation. In fact, many members of Congress welcome the CEOs, soaking up the glamour associated with extreme wealth. In the 95th Congress, Senator Howard O. Metzenbaum (D-Ohio) asked deButts to lunch to discuss public governance of the corporation, while Senator Jacob Javits (R-N.Y.) contacted deButts to solicit the business community's help on urban problems...