Word: specialinterest
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PROTEC--Programme for Technological andEngineering Careers: The organization offersenrichment programs for disadvantaged students--anintern would be used to assist in teaching scienceand math. Candidate should be someone with specialinterest in self-help methods...
...would leave the tax code just as complex and contorted, although perhaps a bit less egregiously unfair. "The weeds would be topped," says Rostenkowski, "but the roots would remain." Indeed, some see a minimum tax as a cynical ruse to avoid real tax reform. "Want to see a specialinterest lobbyist grin over his three-martini lunch?" scoffs a report released last week by the House Republican Conference. "Threaten him with a corporate minimum...
...President nonetheless praised Congress for resisting "specialinterest pressure for still more red-ink spending." Republican Cohen saw the matter differently. He compared the conservatives who had supported the amendment, only days after voting for new spending projects in their home states, to St. Augustine, who had prayed, "Dear Lord, give me chastity-but not just...
...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...