It has conducted nuclear tests, lobbied hard for a permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council and played up the West's high demand for India's skilled information-technology workers.
He said that while he could not hold the testing lobby responsible for a policy the Legislature had approved, its role in the process must share some of the blame.
The emergence of hedge funds, technology and testing companies, lobbying for the privatization of education or of specific educational services.
Some optometrist associations began fighting back against Opternative in order to protect their in-person test business, lobbying to have the startup's service banned by the FDA.
For example, one of the companies that had initially agreed to baseline testing, Chesapeake Energy, lobbied the EPA to limit when and where they could test, documents show.
Some civil liberties organizations and those representing people with AIDS, while favoring more testing, have lobbied against removing signed consent forms or pretest counseling for fear that such changes will make testing less voluntary.
A long catalogue of censorious alterations has been compiled by Jeanne Heifetz, whose stepdaughter attends the Urban Academy Laboratory High School, on East Sixty-seventh Street, and who is the co-chair of a group called the Parents' Coalition to End High-Stakes Testing, which is lobbying to present alternatives to compulsory Regents exams.
"It is unacceptable that governments which rightly demand an EU inquiry into the VW's rigging of air pollution tests are simultaneously lobbying behind the scenes to continue the rigging of CO2 emissions tests," said Greg Archer, clean vehicles manager at the respected green thinktank, Transport and Environment (T&E).
The landesbanks, while insisting that they will pass the tests, have been lobbying the German government and European Commission to apply a less rigorous standard.
The founders staged a mock protest ( a faux-test) of Unicorns lobbying to be included in Chewbacchus.
