In 1934, however, federal prison officials concerned about growing unrest in prisons lobbied to create a work program.
That's one reason Dr. Levy lobbied to create the new Montefiore Larchmont Women's Center, where all nine doctors are women.
In addition to offering the usual amenity spaces, they have begun enlarging their lobbies to create welcoming work zones for the share of the nation's 42 million self-employed people who live in New York.
FOR two people who might, in the society Mitchell Gold has been lobbying to create, be just another divorced couple, Mr. Gold and Bob Williams appear to get along exceptionally well.
"That is all at a standstill now," said Willem van Riet, chief executive officer of the Peace Parks Foundation, a nonprofit group that is lobbying to create 22 cross-border parks in southern Africa.
Not only did Kellogg operate in a policy sphere, lobbying to create the Council for the Conservation of Whales, he also assiduously wooed the popular zeitgeist, most notably by working to produce the National Geographic article that would start to shift the general public's perceptions of what had been largely maligned creatures.
Despite these connections, and a year spent lobbying to create a range of frequencies intended specifically for a combination of private service and public safety communications, Frontline failed in frenzied negotiations in recent weeks to find the financial backing it needed, according to a person who has been involved in the company.
In the early 1990s, the group lobbied to create a Department of Defense breast cancer research program now funded at $150 million a year.
John P. Manning built a billion-dollar fortune on low-income housing, plying a gift for political friend-making and hard-core lobbying to create low-income housing tax credits and reap prodigious profits on a portfolio of 147,000 apartments worth $11 billion.
