First, we avoid selection bias by randomizing whether and to whom influence-mediating messages are sent.
The finance minister remains vulnerable to a scandal involving a former adviser accused of influence-trafficking.
Most big media outlets have murky ownership, leaving their journalists vulnerable to outside pressure and influence-peddling.
It must now decide whether there is any merit to claims of influence-peddling against Mr Miquilena.
But where backers see public financing as a knife into influence-peddling and corruption, opponents see a tax.
And there are other unexplained threads connecting Muslim leaders who are under investigation to Norquist's influence-peddling operation.
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Ms. PEREZ: I would say his hand was probably - and his influence - was probably pretty high.
Weldon's re-election bid was hurt after federal agents searched his daughter's home as part of an influence-peddling investigation.
On Friday, police arrested six people for allegedly running the influence-peddling ring selling government permits to businesses in return for bribes.
British politics has already been tarnished by scandals over influence-peddling and expenses.
Europeans should have learned by now how endemic and corrosive corruption and influence-peddling are when extensive power is concentrated at the center.
Its interlocking cogs of power and influence -- geopolitical, regional, governmental, tribal, mineral, criminal, spiritual, clan and family -- are fiendishly complex.
On May 5th prosecutors filed yet more charges of bribe-taking and influence-peddling.
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Their close relationship to Cabinet ministers and lobby correspondents give them influence - an influence that can hatch into a political career later on.
Much of the media will dislike this kind of change because it would reduce their relative influence--with more resources, candidates could take their messages directly to the voters.
When the LDP lost its majority there after the Recruit influence-peddling scandal of the late 1980s, that presaged the party's historic, though temporary, fall from power in 1993.
In its report, the WAO said it "found no evidence of inappropriate ministerial influence - on party-political or other lines - in the Welsh government's decisions about Awema's funding".
The experiment involved the random manipulation of influence-mediating messages sent from a commercial Facebook application that lets users share information and opinions about movies, actors, directors, and the film industry.
For the superrich, money can represent power, prestige, influence--or a certain measure of immortality, if it is ultimately used to finance some visible endeavor like finding a cure for cancer.
The real question is not whether kids can excuse messy phone-hacking and influence-peddling accusations, but whether family responsibilities can be an excuse for shuffling business responsibilities, no matter how small.
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It has been known for some time that autism has a strong genetic influence - but up until now only eight or nine genes have been confirmed as playing a role.
Former Afghan officials say that the bribery and influence-peddling was at times florid and spectacular, with some of it unfolding in Dubai, the Vegas-like sheikhdom where many high Afghan officials maintain second homes.
But Republican challenger Bob Dole, who is trailing badly in pre-election polls and for whom no issue seems to be working, seized on the Riady revelations to blast foreign "influence-peddling" in the Clinton administration.
In November, financier Steven Rattner agreed as part of a settlement with the SEC over alleged influence-peddling at New York's flagship pension fund to not associate with any investment adviser or broker dealer for two years.
Having worked in the field of transplantation I have too often seen avenues of research effectively halted due to media influence - quite possibly well intentioned but clearly backed by a profound lack of understanding of all the issues involved.
Mr Pascoal's gang has been tied to a group in the north-eastern state of Alagoas allegedly associated with Augusto Farias, a congressman whose murdered brother ran the influence-peddling ring that led to the impeachment of Fernando Collor as Brazil's president in 1993.
Trade can also allow the greener concerns of rich-world consumers to influence developing-world producers.
America's largest landowner Ted Turner and eBay 's (nasdaq: EBAY - news - people ) former president Jeff Skoll have used their fortunes to influence eco-culture.
America's largest landowner Ted Turner and eBay 's former president Jeff Skoll have used their fortunes to influence eco-culture.
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