Sentences with phrase «ways public interest groups»

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A recent report from People for the American Way, Norman Lear's liberal public - interest group, notes that three new biology texts (from Scott Foresman, Silver Burdett and Holt, Rinehart & Winston) have managed to avoid the word «evolution» altogether.

Lobbyists and interest groups stir up public opinion demanding action this way or that; the legislators bend to the winds of this pressure; the congressional committees and their friends in the bureaucracy write the immensely detailed and arcane rules that, with little oversight, put legislation into practice.

The New York Public Interest Research Group in a letter to the state Board of Elections identifies three different ways companies seek to circumvent the state's campaign limits through a network of limited liability companies.

«There is a lot of business they have before Albany,» said Bill Mahoney, the research coordinator for the New York Public Interest Research Group, «and this is one way for them to buy more access than other folks.»

«What he advanced is sort of an innovative, interesting way to attack the scourge of independent expenditures in America,» said Blair Horner, executive director of the New York Public Interest Research Group.

«The normal incentive, the theoretical democratic check and balance doesn't exist; is tilted way in favor of the executive,» said a clearly amused Blair Horner, legislative director for the New York Public Interest Research Group.

«Big money playing a big role now at all levels of elections is really sort of the way it works now in America,» said Blair Horner of the New York Public Interest Research Group.

Leaders of the New York Public Interest Research Group filed a five - page complaint with the Joint Commission on Public Ethics, saying political parties that spend money on anything from ads to memoranda pushing legislators to vote a certain way must file bi-monthly disclosure reports with JCOPE.

Kathryn S. Wylde, president of the Partnership for New York City, a business group, said she had often had dealings with Mr. Klein and that his experience at the Education Department «established his ability to take on a difficult challenge in a straightforward, honest way, and enhanced the credibility that he established during his years in Washington as a defender of the public interest.

Government watchdog groups — including the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law, Common Cause New York, the League of Women Voters of New York State and the New York Public Interest Research Group — sent a complaint to the state's Committee on Open Government while the hearing was still under way on Tuesday afternoon, alleging violations of the state's Open Meetings Law.

It has become a way of glossing over irresolvable conflict between groups with some interests in common, such as taxpayers (who want to save money), scientists (who want to spend it on exciting projects) and people with disabilities (who hope public funds will improve the quality of their life).

By analyzing the discourse employed by politicians, lobbyists, think tanks, and special interest groups, the authors uncover the hidden assumptions that often underlie popular statements about school reform, and demonstrate how misinformation or half - truths have been used to reshape public education in ways that serve the interests of private enterprise.

According to a study by the U.S. Interest Public Research Group, 70 percent of all credit reports contain errors and therefore, you need to utilize all promising ways that help improve your credit score.

Heatsick, who included her in his «10 artists heatsick rates «interview, was interested in the way the work «dealt with notions of recycling, circulation and eco branding», as well as the way her musical group Plug (with Sian Dorrer) dealt with stock imagery «to [confuse] the listener as to the public image of the group.»

Often these front groups are created by industry or public relations firms with the goal of influencing public opinion in a way that protects the interests of those who created them.

Maybe the writers of this (extremely informative and interesting) site need to get together with a group of sympathetic child psychologists in order to figure out the best way to present the global warming issue to the public....

Mauro sums it up this way: «That concern has transformed Sole v. Wyner from a quirky case with unusual facts into the next major battlefield between public - interest groups and government over fee - shifting statutes.»

A core group of lawyers, legal educators, and allied professionals believe that the best way forward is to create an independent organization, the Institute for the Future of Law Practice, that can agilely coordinate the interests of legal employers, law students, law schools, clients, and the public interest.

Finally, there are better ways to address the issue of stock price manipulation than banning public interest groups from challenging patents.

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