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...face or a slap on the forehead. In 1980, Wanda Brandstetter, a lobbyist for the National Organization for Women (NOW), tried to get an Illinois state representative to vote for the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) by handing him a business card on which she had written, "Mr. Swanstrom, the offer for help in your election, plus $1,000 for your campaign for the pro-ERA vote." A prosecutor called the note a "contract for bribery," and the jury agreed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Book Excerpt: Steven Pinker: Words Don't Mean What They Mean | 9/6/2007 | See Source »

...lobbyists in Gucci Gulch bribe legislators today? They do it with innuendo. If Brandstetter had said, "As you know, Mr. Swanstrom, NOW has a history of contributing to political campaigns. And it has contributed more to candidates with a voting record that is compatible with our goals. These days one of our goals is the ratification of the ERA," she would have avoided a fine, probation and community service...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Book Excerpt: Steven Pinker: Words Don't Mean What They Mean | 9/6/2007 | See Source »

Forecasters agree that U.S. exports will be the main engine for whatever growth is achieved in 1988. "The export industries appear to be out of the woods," says Thomas Swanstrom, chief economist for Sears. David Hale, the chief economist for Kemper Financial Services in Chicago, predicts that exports of manufactured goods could jump 15% to 20% next year, at the expense of America's trading partners. "We are going to increase our market share," he says, "largely by cannibalizing the foreigners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Confusion - But Hope | 12/21/1987 | See Source »

Belasco, Daniel Frohman, Bobby Connolly, Arthur Swanstrom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Summer Lightning | 7/7/1930 | See Source »

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