Word: specialinterest
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...campaign for Congress based on pledges and actual practices of reform. We Republicans must shed our big-business image and become the party of the common man. We can do this in part by ceasing to use "specialinterest" money in our campaigns. My campaign did not accept one penny of special-interest money. I believe the great lobbies' power in Washington could be broken up if special-interest money were ruled out of political campaigns...
...significance that both sides put on the resumption of diplomatic relations became quickly evident. A curious arrangement was worked out: the two embassies will remain "specialinterest sections" of other nations' embassies, under the usual plan carried on when countries fall out but want to continue some kind of contact. But these sections will be headed by ambassadors, and not mere charg...