But businesses were emboldened by their success and are now quick to lobby politicians when they are faced with accounting standards they dislike, said Edmund L. Jenkins, its current chairman.
ACADEMIC economists like to make fun of businesspeople: they want competition when they enter a new market but are quick to lobby for subsidies and barriers to competitors once they get in.
MAMA says it aims to become a "definitive source of information and a hub for the latest thinking and knowledge in the industry with the goal to establish itself as a reliable, thought provoking, responsible body capable of making quick decisions and lobbying for blockchain-based asset management".
Mr. Steel said his group is lobbying for quick implementation of the European "Single Sky" coordinated control program and the U.S. Next Generation air traffic management project, both designed, in different ways, to guide airliners more directly to their destinations.
There is certainly gossip at Westminster that some influential Tories were gunning for Quick because he lobbied them to support the case for 42-day pre-charge detention.
Smithfield Foods, an owner of the farms, and the National Pork Producers Council, the industry's lobbying arm, were quick to publicize that announcement.
Even before taking the oath of office, Obama and his transition team have been active in lobbying Congress for quick action on a stimulus package totaling approximately $850 billion, or maybe even higher.
The change drew quick praise from a major gay-rights lobbying organization.
Are Roundtable members using their considerable political and lobbying resources to urge aggressive and quick action to address the coming global climate crisis?
Companies and lobbying arms of the private sector were quick to respond to the lengthy rules.
