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...required cities to buy American vehicles to qualify for subsidies, get out of the bus business. Its requirement for wheelchair capabilities, for instance, added to the weight of the new buses and lowered their fuel efficiency. "It was like trying to build a camel by regulation," says a transportation lobbyist. Many cities are renovating GM's 1959-model "new look" bus, long the mainstay of public transportation. Notes a Chicago transit manager: "They're reliable and pretty much all the bugs were out of them." Other cities, including Atlanta, Seattle, Louisville and Los Angeles, are turning to foreign...
Calling Reagan's proposals " a strategy of elimination," one education lobbyist said last week that he expects a 75-per-cent reduction in the $40 million Carter had recommended for next year for the social and economic divisions of the NSF. He added that he has learned that Reagan also plans to slash over 60 per cent from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), which funds research in psychology, among other fields...
...many concessions to A T & T in their rush to wrap up the case before the new President took office. Said William McGowan, chairman of MCI Telecommunications, which is battling Bell for the long-distance telephone market: "It sounds like a slap on the wrist." Added Herbert Jasper, Washington lobbyist for a group of telecommunications companies: "It appears to be a free ride...
...Morning Executive Producer Elliot Bernstein. So far, however, no one has dared intrude upon the Captain, whose real name is Robert Keeshan. Captain Kangaroo draws even fewer viewers than Morning. But children's programming is popular with politicians and Washington broadcasting bureaucrats, and Keeshan has proved a powerful lobbyist on the upper floors of the CBS Building in Manhattan. Nevertheless, CBS News President William Leonard is hopeful. Says he: "I just do a lot of praying...
...served in the Nixon and Ford Administrations. These include George Shultz, former Treasury Secretary and now vice chairman of Bechtel Corp.; Alan Greenspan, Ford's top economic aide and currently a private New York consultant; and Charls Walker, onetime Deputy Secretary of the Treasury and a powerful Washington lobbyist. Anderson's economic advisers are relative unknowns. His main aide is Robert Walker, a legislative assistant on his congressional staff...