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Given that accurate information, rationally processed, often leads people to undermine the public good, how excited should we be about Gingrich's Thomas, the online data base of congressional documents? Granted, there may not be a lobbyist manipulating the data flow. But that does not mean interest-group politics won't result. In cyberspace, technology may have finally reached a point where groups form spontaneously; on the Internet, passing information to a neighbor of like interest is a push-button exercise and can easily trigger a chain reaction. The result is a mass mailing that requires neither a centralized mass...
...they have the right to organize." The challenge is toughest in China, where the only legal organizer is the Communist Party, and workers can land in jail simply for complaining. "We can't have a code that requires American companies to break host country laws," insists a business lobbyist in Washington...
...think he'll be a lobbyist or a lawyer; I don't think he'll pursue any kind of corporate or materialistic career. I think his future is in communications. It's his strength...
...fact, Kennedy stands out as the strongest supporter of higher education in Congress, said Washington D.C. lobbyist Nan Nixon, Harvard's director of federal relations...
...through the chill tank. But USDA officials rejected this idea because the visible evidence of contamination would have been washed off. At the meeting, industry representatives grew angry and left the impression that they would protest -- which they may indeed have done. Several hours after that session, Tyson's lobbyist, Jack Williams, met with Espy in the Secretary's office, sources told TIME. A Tyson spokesman insists the zero- tolerance proposal was not discussed, but a USDA participant in the earlier session was later told to "destroy" everything he had regarding zero tolerance for poultry. The plan then languished...