Former Senator Dennis DeConcini of Arizona, who received $85,000 in campaign contributions from the banker Charles H. Keating Jr., was among the most bare-knuckled of Mr. Keating's "constituent services team" — the so-called Keating Five — persuading the Federal Home Loan Bank Board in the 1980s to prop up his failed savings and loan company.
Jackson has also managed to make a sullen constituent of the team's closest thing to a veteran star, Carmelo Anthony.
Re "Monopoly's Money," Nov. 6: The article was littered with inaccuracies and missed the fact that Nascar is a successful business model that has a long tradition of sharing the wealth to ensure long-term growth for all its constituents, including drivers, team owners and tracks.
Key to this model's effectiveness is the extent to which constituent members of the team integrate their professional practices in order to optimise patient care.
The report details a 2013 incident in which Honda's office helped "someone associated with the San Jose Sharks professional hockey team" with a constituent issue and then passed on the constituent's personal contact information to the campaign, "suggesting that the campaign seek contributions from the individuals involved".
Finally greater work is required on the rider-horse partnership in order to identify the constituents of a winning team within a given discipline.
"In order to ensure that we are fully connected with our industry and constituents, I constantly encourage our team members to leave the office and get out in the field," explains CEO David Levy.
You'll also need to be certain that you can devote yourself completely to the tasks of running and (hopefully) serving, and you'll need to be able to convince your team and your constituents that you are up for the challenge.
You said you were "satisfied" that Wilshaw had enough powers, because his team could inspect the "constituent parts".
Almost to a person executives of the constituent groups described the new management team as effective, with Mr. Levy as the upbeat optimist and Mr. Crawford as the levelheaded realist.
