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Many executives oppose the commissioner's involvement in rate setting. But John Hancock Lobbyist Barbara Burgess supports Hiam. Says she: "Current rates discriminate against the individual...
...been linked to the insider-trading scandals. Presidential candidates are peeking through drawn curtains to make sure that reporters are not staking out their private lives. A congressional witness, deeply involved in the Reagan Administration's secret foreign policy, is huddling with his lawyers before facing inquisitors. A Washington lobbyist who once breakfasted regularly in the White House mess is brooding over his investigation by an independent counsel. In Quantico, Va., the Marines are preparing to court-martial one of their own. In Palm Springs, Calif., a husband-and-wife televangelist team, once the adored cynosures of 500,000 faithful...
...Harvard lobbyist Jane H. Corlett sees that this growth has further subjected higher education to governmental jurisdiction and criticism...
Judging from the quality of last year's awardees, five of whom were among the nation's 32 Rhodes scholars named in 1986, this year's contingent promises much in terms of that crucial competence. It includes the inventor of a hand- held computer scanner, a part-time Washington lobbyist against federal deficits and a professional ballerina turned budget analyst. Diversity is the rule. Eric Gaidos plots schemes for the exploration of Mars at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology. Martha McSally, a biology major and triathlete, helps oversee basic training at the U.S. Air Force...
Anderson admitted that in 1983 and 1984 he evaded paying taxes on more than $200,000 in income, including $80,000 that he received as a lobbyist for the Rev. Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church International. The former Treasury Secretary also conceded that from 1983 to 1985 he was a representative of a British West Indies-based bank that was never registered with authorities. During that time the bank invested in fraudulent projects that cost depositors at least $4 million. Some depositors were innocent victims, prosecutors said, while others were illegally trying to conceal their income. In a separate...