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...people--say, from Eastern states where they are most concerned about these things [both the deductibility question and the bond issue]--that he will take care of them on state and local deductibility if they support this. We lost some votes that way," said Thomas Head, a senior tax lobbyist at the Association of American Universities...
...were not ready to applaud. "That's a good first step, but they haven't gone far enough," said Marla Kaplan, associate director of Bankcard Holders of America, a consumer advice service that claims some 100,000 members. "It's time rates came down still farther." Alan Fox, chief lobbyist for the Consumer Federation of America, said cardholders could save $500 million a year if the average credit rate dropped to 17.1%. A recent federation study estimated that consumers spend a whopping $6 billion a year in interest on purchases made with bank cards...
Rosen, who in the spring was appointed associate vice president for news and public relations, cited a salary raise and increased opportunity to help formulate policy as prominent motivations for leaving Harvard after seven years of work as a consultant, lobbyist, and media relations head...
...equal access" to school facilities for voluntary religious and nonreligious student groups. President Reagan supports school prayer, and antiabortion legislation and several of his appointments have gratified the religious right. Among them: William Bennett, a Roman Catholic who backs religious day schools, as Secretary of Education; former Moral Majority Lobbyist Robert Billings as Assistant Secretary of Education; Pro-Life Presbyterian C. Everett Koop as Surgeon General...
Supporters argue that instruction in children's native tongues is essential to providing them with an adequate education. "The Federal Government has a profound responsibility to these children," says James Lyons, chief lobbyist for the National Association for Bilingual Education. But critics hotly question whether such expenditures are worthwhile. They also challenge the role of the Federal Government in favoring or heavily funding any particular method of instruction, much less sponsoring cultural-maintenance studies. "The intent of bilingual education has been distorted into a vehicle for a bicultural approach to education," says Robert Sweet, a member of the White House...