Word: pressing
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Only in the past few years have new Washington companies overcome their disdain for politics, banded together to form lobbying groups and begun to press their case. Their list of demands is growing both in size and in the amount of attention it is attracting in Congress. In the past year lawmakers have begun to make personal pilgrimages to talk to CEOs outside the Beltway...
...members of the press, face time was a problem. Some gatherings were harder to get into than that fancy sex party in Eyes Wide Shut. When a reporter was discovered, there was likely to be somebody shouting for security. But if you missed the cash bash in Philadelphia, don't worry. It will all be repeated at the Democratic Convention next week in Los Angeles. Plans are already under way for the reception at Armani on Rodeo Drive. As you may have heard, the other team also plays this game with authority...
...team. It was Democrats, after all, who pushed through legislation ending the discrimination he recalled so movingly, the kind in which he was denied meals at restaurants in the South and forced to drive through several states without being able to stop to use public bathrooms. At a packed press conference in 1995, Powell relieved Democrats with his decision not to run for President (polls showed him handily defeating Bill Clinton) but devastated them with the announcement of his party affiliation. He said he was a Republican because he liked limited government, fiscal prudence and individual enterprise. I think...
...outburst was a tad obstreperous, Ford had it coming. Six days before, the company's suave president and CEO Jac Nasser had sailed into the National Press Club in Washington, announcing to reporters, "We're doing things very differently at Ford Motor Company these days." Voluntarily, the company would improve the fuel economy of sport-utility vehicles 25% over five years, he said, saving an average of 1,700 gals. of gas over the life of an average vehicle. "We welcome other automakers to join...
...going to be very creative in the ways we move forward. The Sabbath is something we have always observed. We may be spending it in various cities throughout the country. We've always felt we are observant, traditional. I've never gotten into this labeling of Orthodox, frankly. The press has gotten into that more than us. We've just always been traditional and observant. That's an important way to describe it because it's more inclusive of so many different ways of celebrating the Sabbath and tradition, and some people don't celebrate it that way, and that...