Word: lobbyists
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...agree on how to spend about a trillion dollars next year. Clinton vowed that any budget surplus should be devoted to "saving Social Security first," and so he ruled out any new farm aid. But everything is negotiable now. It's "cash and carry," as one Democratic lobbyist put it. So when potential supporters come asking for money, Clinton is not in a very strong position to bargain--and that's even with members of his own party...
Jonathan Cottin, 61, a longtime journalist and Washington lobbyist who has been without full-time work since 1993, says, "We intimidate people who are younger than we are and who might be our boss. They see their parents, and if they've had a bad relationship with their parents, that counts against us. Secondly, the human-resources departments in companies do the math and figure out that in five to seven years we might be a burden on health or pension programs. There isn't much attention paid to the merit we can bring...
...those who feel their abilities and experience are worth more? They can only echo Cottin, the former lobbyist: "When I read the figures on the unemployment rate I'm very troubled, because no one is seeing the real problem in this country. Someone needs to tell Bill Clinton that some of the most talented people in the country aren't working simply because they were born before 1950." Someone should convey the same message to employers who moan about how hard it is to find qualified help in today's tight labor markets...
...esteemed but short-lived Frank's Place, this show aims high, taking up issues of race, politics and sexual orientation. The hero, played by Steven Williams, is a black Republican who owns a bar in a rundown but gentrifying neighborhood of Washington. His regular customers include a natty lobbyist, a prostitute, an African cab driver and, the only white, an aide to a decrepit Southern Senator. Pam Grier plays the smart, attractive head of a children's advocacy group. The show is worthy, but its ideas are obvious and it lacks what those coarse series do at least offer--humor...
Those days ended five months ago, when Bond took over as chairman. Meanwhile, former Baltimore Congressman Kweisi Mfume, the hapless Chavis' replacement as executive director, has proved to be an adept fund raiser and effective lobbyist. Bond's predecessor as chairman, Myrlie Evers-Williams, did such a good job of cleaning up Gibson's mess that Bond is free to devote himself to the organization's true mission: fighting for racial justice. He's the right man for the job: a charismatic civil rights hero since the 1960s, when he served as spokesman for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. Since...