Word: lobbyists
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tend to work within our delegation and ouralumni," says Nan Nixon, Harvard's full-timeWashington lobbyist. "For the reason that allpolitics is local...
...goal is legislative action, then welook to a coalition," says Jane H. Corlette, aCambridge-based Harvard lobbyist...
According to Nan Wells, Princeton's chiefWashington lobbyist, on issues of studentassistance, research funding and tax policy, thehigher education community looks to Harvard forleadership...
...looking into the exorbitant commissions paid by Elf in conjunction with the $2.7 billion sale of six French frigates to Taiwan in 1991. Elf, then state owned, had no official involvement in the sale of the vessels. But an investigation into complaints of unjustified commissions soon led to Elf lobbyist Deviers-Joncour, who admitted that the oil company had paid her some $10 million to promote the sale. Her mission was to persuade Dumas to reverse his opposition to the deal. But, she said, she was unsuccessful...
...committee's Stern concedes that "there's been much less controversy than one might have expected from the hysterical predictions we made." Americans United director Barry Lynn notes that "in most school districts, students are spontaneously forming clubs and acting upon their own and not outsiders' religious agendas." A.C.L.U. lobbyist Terri Schroeder also supports the Equal Access Act, pointing out that the First Amendment's Free Exercise clause protecting religious expression is as vital as its Establishment Clause, which prohibits government from promoting a creed. The civil libertarians' acceptance of the clubs owes something to their use as a defense...