Word: washingtonization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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AIPAC is one of the most influential lobbies in Washington, second only to the American Association of Retired People, AIPAC Northeast Field Organizer Rachel Murov said. The 55,000-member organization is bipartisan and does not directly fund political campaigns...
Heyman, chair and CEO of GAF Corporation, a maker of commercial roofing materials, made the gift out of a concern for the decrease in the number of law graduates going to Washington. Before entering the private sector, the now-billionaire Heyman began his career as a lawyer for the United States Justice Department...
...National Association for Law Placement, which for 25 years has been tracking the job choices of new law graduates nationwide, said that only 13.3 percent of graduates entered the government in 1998, down from 18.5 percent in 1975, according to a Washington Post article...
Meinert has a history of deception going back to his years as an undergraduate student at George Washington University (GWU) in Washington, D.C. According to court documents, Meinert pled guilty to two felony counts of theft and fraud in October relating to money he illegally obtained from the United States Senate Federal Credit Union...
...second black box from the crash of EgyptAir Flight 990 could prove the most important. Investigators at the National Transportation Safety Board lab in Washington are examining the cockpit voice recorder, recovered late Saturday evening. The recorder only contains 30 minutes of cockpit conversations before it starts taping over itself, but that should be enough to tell the story. It was less than 40 minutes into its New York City to Cairo run when the Boeing 767-300 ER dropped from 33,000 to 16,700 ft. in less than 40 seconds, paused, quickly climbed upwards for more than...