Banks Spent Heavily To Kill Money Market Bill
A Kansas lobbyist expenditure report shows a record 168,164 dollars spent in the first quarter of 1981 by 527 registered lobbyists. Banking interests led spending, with the Investment Company Institute and Kansas groups pushing against a money market funds restriction bill. Expenditures included 14,161 dollars by the Institute for ads, and notable totals by the Kansas Bankers Association, the Kansas Savings and Loan League, and others.
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Topeka, Kan
Kansas
Governmental Ethics Commission
Investment Company Institute
Monemarket
Kansas Bankers Association
Kansas Savings
Kansas Society of Association Executives
Bankers Association
Kansas Railroad Association
Kansas Beer Wholesalers Association
Wichita Chamber of Commerce
Kansas Livestock Association
Kansas Engineering Society
Kansas Quarterhorse Racing Association
Senate
Kansas Independent Oil and Gas Association
John Carlin
Kansas Electric Cooperatives Inc
United Telephone Co. of
Checking In Spinoff Declares Ridiculous Fine Line
In Los Angeles AP review, the new Checking In spawns from All in the Family and The Jeffersons, trading sharp barbs for bargain-basement humor with Florence as maid supervisor in a ritzy hotel. The piece mocks the shallow premise and weak jokes while praising Marla Gibbs's charm.
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Los Angeles
CBS
The
Houser Street
Jeffersons
New Life
Marla Gibbs
Florence
George Jefferson
Larry Linville
Linville
Washington Post Apology Over Fabricated Heroine Story
The Washington Post admitted it was the victim of a hoax as reporter Janet Cooke relinquished her Pulitzer Prize for the allegedly reporting eight year old heroin addict Jimmy's World. The paper apologized to readers and the Pulitzer board, and Columbia's prize panel reallocated the award to Village Voice’s Teresa Carpenter.
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Washington (Ap
Washington Post
Janet Cooke
Pulitzer Board
Seekers of the Truth
Miss Cooke
Today’s
Post
Benjamin Bradlee
Bradlee
Columbia University
The
Teresa Carpenter
Village Voice
the Post
Jimmy
Washington
Polish Forum calls for purge of hard-liners in ruling party
An all day meeting in Torun organized by the All-Polish Forum of Party Reconciliation urged the central committee and Politburo to oust members lacking popular support amid Solidarity reforms. Delegates pressed for open deliberations, rank and file observers, and leaders who will explain Poland’s true situation to other communist states.
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Warsaw
Poland
Polish Communist Party
Torun
All
Party Reconciliation
Soviet Union
Central Committee
Solidarity Labor Federation
Wojciech Lamentowicz
Party College
Carlin Signs Bills to Aid Kansas City Kansas
Gov. John Carlin signed six bills in Kansas City Kansas authorizing a $500 million General Motors assembly plant in Wyandotte County and nearly $42 million in I-435 highway projects. The measure transfers $20 million to ensure use of federal funds for I-435 work, speeds bids set for June 4, and allows port authorities to issue tax exempt bonds for the plant. Also expands industrial revenue bonds and targeted sales tax exemptions for related projects.
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Topeka
Kan
Kansas City
John Carlin
Carlin
General Motors Assembly
Wyandotte County
Kansas Freeway Fund
General Motors
John B. Kemp
Kansas Department of Transportation
Kansas
Kemp
Leavenworth Road
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Lawdy
Richard M. Nixon
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Lodz
Stefan Olszowski
Stanislaw Kanin
Czechoslovak Communist Party
Solidarity
Leonid J. Brezhnev
Bydgoszcz
Lyndon
Osage City
A.C. W.C
Ford-Ferguson
Ford
Chevrolet
Floyd Peterson
Carol and
Daryl Michael
Charles Beaty
Wayne Wischropp
KCK
Ottawa
Levi
S. Main
Thurs
Sun
Hwy
Rex Buh Synge
Bristol Myers
Bufferie
Butlerin
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