While the stereotype of lobbying is of highly paid lobbyists wooing representatives with campaign cash and fancy meals, the world of influence peddling is changing, and lobbyists who can quickly mount a credible e-mail and letter-writing drive in Congress carry much weight.
Kim Jong Sik is a veteran rocket scientist specializing in solid fuel propulsion, according to the news agency, while Ri Pyong-chol is an Air Force general and an integral part of the regime's drive to develop a credible intercontinental ballistic missile threat.
In this case, that included learning how to drive a car, adopt a credible American accent and drop her image as the quintessential English rose.
It's a genuinely enjoyable car with a credible dose of Toyota's new "fun to drive".
For years, WHO reports on tobacco have driven anti-smoking policies as a credible source of the best available research on cancer and its causes.
Driven by the lack of a credible biological benchmarking system in which to test coevolution detection methods, we established a realistic and broad platform for benchmarking 2-way-coevolution at the protein sequence level.
David Miliband has just delivered a fairly combative opening statement, praising the GMB for the way it organised a membership drive and stressing his credentials as a "credible leader".
But Mrs. Clinton faces a challenge in having to adjust to his intensity, and to his strong drive toward establishing his stature as a credible candidate.
Populists like Elizabeth Warren, former FDIC Chairman Sheila Bair, and even Larry Summers (who comes off as a major foil of Geithner in inter-office spats) could backseat-drive, but they didn't have a credible workable alternative.
Populists like Elizabeth Warren, former FDIC Chairman Sheila Bair, and even Larry Summers (who comes off as a major foil of Geithner in inter-office spats) could backseat-drive, but they didn't have a credible workable alternative.
