Word: unclearly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Lobbying our legislators and rule-making agencies is another effective means of molding public policy. It has been estimated that special interest groups spend $1 billion annually hiring Washington lobbyists, whose job is to influence the Congress and federal agencies. The exact dollar amoung is unclear because the present lobbying disclosure law is, as Common Cause puts it, "more loophole than...
...profits tax that would leave the companies 29? out of every dollar gained from decontrol; he urged that the profits be spent on additional exploration and production. Kennedy angrily challenged the figure, asserting the oil companies would end up with far more. By week's end it was unclear whose figures were more accurate. But the Kennedy intervention emboldened House Speaker Tip O'Neill to call publicly for a bigger windfall...
...Thanks to the publicity, Marvin is getting more film offers than ever before. Michelle has a contract to write a book. And Marvin Mitchelson, her lawyer, has received a $25,000 advance for a book of his own, and his law business has tripled. Its legal ramifications may be unclear, but Marvin vs. Marvin has proved once again that grime usually pays in Tinsel Town...
...will force some hard and painful decisions. Close to home, Jonathan Swift's is hosting two events of particular interest this week. Sunday and Monday they will present Sun Ra and his Intergalactic Arkestra, a happening by any standard. Sun Ra is simply outrageous; his age and background are unclear, but he wanders around our planet saying things like: The intergalactic music in its present phase of presentation will be correlative to the key synopsis of the past and to the uncharted multipotential planes outside the bounds of the limited earth-eternity futre... and playing music that is both startlingly...
...special treat, the young ladies of Appleyard College (it is really just a finishing school for adolescents) are to be taken on an educational outing to the base of Hanging Rock, a massive formation. The precise pedagogic function of this venture is unclear-something about appreciating more fully the depths of geologic time, perhaps the mystery of Hanging Rock's origins in violent tectonic chaos...