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...legislature cutting off funds for prostate operations," Karen Hudner, a Civil Liberties Union lobbyist, said yesterday...
...people are unhappy with Harvard's image as the tough guy among the universities who move in Washington circles," one lobbyist who asked not to be identified said last night...
...Government and Community relations office stayed on the sidelines (except for a plea from chief lobbyist Roger Moore before the committee that reviewed the bill), but opposition still surfaced. Delays snagged the bill all along the line until, in the mad rush that annually preceeds adjournment, the bill turned up again in the fray. Someone in the governor's office--speculation centered on legislative aide and Harvard alumnus Neil Lynch-- managed to get the bill returned to the floor of the senate. Only appeals from old King friends, City Manager James L. Sullivan, State Sen. Michael LoPresti, and a host...
...conservatives who saw a strong campaign issue and made the most of it, reports TIME Congressional Correspondent Neil MacNeil. The idea originated with Charls Walker, tax lobbyist for a number of big corporations and now a Reagan adviser. Walker sent a memo to Reagan headquarters last month to urge action, and when Reagan went to Chicago two weeks ago for a meeting with top strategists, he made his pitch in person. "There's no question we need this," said Reagan. "Any negatives?" "No negatives," said Walker. "Let's do it," said Reagan...
What would be fulfillment enough for almost any violinist-to be one of the world's leading virtuosos-is for Stern merely a starting point. He is also a tireless advocate of causes, a godfather to young talent, a lobbyist, a fund raiser and a supreme power broker in the music world, albeit a rather puckish, cherubic one. "I've never been able to live in a cocoon," he says. "I have a long buttinsky nose." In Yiddish-one of the six languages he either speaks or understands -the expression is a kochleffl (a stirrer...