REASON: 1.4 (b), (d) 1. (C) Summary: U.S. interests in Tajikistan are a stable state on Afghanistan's northern border, support for our military efforts in Afghanistan, and for Tajikistan to be a stabilizing influence and contributor to economic development in the region.
Mr. Gean, a Democrat, also likes knowing that if he wins, no one will be able to ascribe his future decisions to the undue influence of contributors.
He took a lot of expensive gifts from an influence-seeking contributor, and in July the Senate Select Committee on Ethics "severely admonished" Mr. Torricelli for violating Senate rules by having failed to report the gifts.
In addition, geography and vegetation also influence the contributors to ET and streamflow variability.
Federal law does not allow campaign money to be spent for personal benefit, to guard against undue influence by contributors.
Gradient boosting machine (GBM) models were applied to quantify the relative influence of contributors on each HRQOL domain.
See also Clayton D. Peoples, "Contributor Influence in Congress: Social Ties and PAC Effects on U.S. House Policymaking".
The history of weight-loss drug development is littered with failures, not least because most drug developers tend to fasten on to a single physiological goal--to reduce fat deposition, to improve insulin sensitivity, or to blunt appetite, for instance--and design a drug to influence that one contributor to obesity and its related ills.
The city's program was always intended to limit the influence of moneyed contributors.
We don't deny that a private contribution system may pose the risk of excessive influence by large contributors, especially when these contributions go directly to candidates.
