Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt have become more active in local and federal politics of late.
But the sector is vulnerable to the vagaries of federal politics and budget deficits.
CDU. Mr Platzeck, in contrast, had to be asked several times to step into federal politics.
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Not until he was 50 did he enter federal politics, winnning a Montreal suburban seat in 1988.
Both companies are well insulated from the vagaries of federal politics.
But he quit the party in November after failing to win its endorsement to run for federal politics against Deputy Prime Wayne Swan and public clashes with the Queensland Premier Campbell Newman.
In a sign no Google effort was too small to go unnoticed by Microsoft, John Sampson, a director of Microsoft's federal politics operations, last year urged at least one member of Congress from Washington state not to support a Google event in Seattle last year called "Get Your Business Online" that catered to small businesses.
Arguably, federal patronage politics is a cancer on the body politic guaranteed to attract endless sums of lobbyists and lobbyist cash.
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How about some facts about politics, federal spending and Sandy relief.
Obama said again Monday that his initiatives would not add to the federal deficit and said politics are behind efforts to thwart his plans to overhaul the nation's health care system.
If Europe takes decisions slowly, it is partly because of Germany's complex federal structure and messy coalition politics.
He told the students that federal regulation of corporate involvement with politics began with the Tillman Act, which in 1907 banned direct corporate contributions to candidates.
The Federal Reserve System is as independent of politics as any of our government institutions.
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Finally, the scabrous politics of Washington could blight federal assistance to improve manufacturing.
Now, the worsening shortage finally has forced officials at the federal and state levels to put aside politics and begin to address the problem.
When he left the federal Conservatives in 1998 to jump into provincial politics, he expected to become premier quickly.
But corporate America isn't throwing its full weight behind the movement, according to data from the Federal Election Committee and the Center for Responsive Politics, a campaign finance watchdog.
The tug-of-war between the states and the federal government has been a perennial of American politics from the founding of the republic, but striking the right balance between the two has always been best achieved in the political arena, not the courtroom.
German politicians are constrained by a complex federal system, a sceptical public, messy coalition politics and jealous institutions such as the constitutional court.
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Trouble came to both men and to Alaska's political establishment when the federal government began investigating the rough and tumble way politics were practiced in the state.
While the federal offer of compromise was bad news for state politics, it may have been a boon for the governor's credibility as a potential presidential candidate.
Crist made his name in state politics by championing civil rights, opposing federal meddling in the Terri Schiavo case, and, as governor, making the environment a signature issue.
Lewis said Abraham Chasanow was a middle-class man, uninterested in politics, who was terrorized by the federal loyalty-security program of the 1950s when unnamed informants alleged Chasanow was a radical communist sympathizer.
No one doubts the health care cases will have an immediate impact on Obama's re-election chances, as well as the long-term credibility of the federal courts, which are supposed to be beyond politics.
In 2002, the commissioners proposed completely deregulating Internet politics, but that was rejected by a federal judge.
In order to understand why such perverse priorities would be embraced during a period of severe fiscal pressure, you have to understand how politics works not just at the federal level, but at all levels in a democratic society.
Like the Federal Reserve, the Federal Health Board would be composed of highly independent experts insulated from politics.
Stan Collender, managing director of the Federal Budget Consulting Group, a private firm, argues that the politics of a budget surplus are fundamentally different from those of a deficit.
Presidents Dwight Eisenhower and Richard Nixon were two Republicans who pragmatically accepted that Americans had come to expect that the federal government would protect against certain risks and that trying to reverse politics to the pre-New Deal period would be politically suicidal.
Considering politics in the hiring process is a violation of department policy and federal law.
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