Public political campaigns

Here, too, the Chemistry. Elements of life image campaign and the political campaign, as well as the dialogue and events programs, are important tools in successfully informing and convincing the public. 

BART was the first wholly new mass transit system built in the US since Philadelphia completed its subway 60 years earlier (Whitt, 1982). Bechtel and the BAC first lobbied for the creation of BART in 1949. It then initiated the establishment of the BART commission in 1951, which undertook the preliminary study (Hall, 1982). In 1953 a preliminary report on BART was presented to the California Legislature urging that mass transit was needed in Bay Area, and that subway builder Parsons Brinckerhoff, Hall, and MacDonald (PBHM) be hired to consult on rail transit. In 1959 Bechtel was hired by the BART district along with PBHM, and the smaller local Tudor construction company, which combined came to be known as (PBTB). Upon completion of the study, Stephen Bechtel, son of Warren Bechtel and now head of the company, steered the BAC in a political campaign to get public bonds for BART. In the 1962 BART referendum, the BAC led the bond campaign... 

Administrative representatives are often shy about developing water reuse projects. Evaluations of the risks related to water reuse have been twisted so as to be employed in political arguments during election campaigns, which may explain the reluctance of politicians. Examples of failure and success of indirect potable reuse projects in the United States are provided by [13]. Such experiences point out the importance of public education as regards the human interaction with the water cycle and the management of water resources. The population should be aware that... 

Although Patterson insisted that he had no political acumen, he continued his campaign to reach the people who could affect public policy. That fall, he wrote to Senator Edmund S. Muskie of Maine, who chaired the Senate Special Subcommittee on Air and Water. Muskie had just spent two years holding public hearings throughout the United States on air quality he would be the Democratic vice presidential candidate in 1968 and a pres-... 

Spitzer, Robert. The Politics of Gun Control. 3d ed. New York CQ Press, 2004. This updated survey and analysis covers the development of gun culture, criminological issues, legislative and legal debates (including the Second Amendment), interest groups (including the NRA and Brady Campaign), public opinion, and the relationship of gun issues to overall political trends. 

The EMS was a central player in the campaign to institute the new order of environmental inquiry that, by 1976, genetic toxicology had come to represent (Drake et al. 1975). Ironically, the new field s rapid rise may be traced in part to the EMS s effectiveness at maintaining a publicly visible boundary between environmental science and environmental politics while simultaneously subverting that same boundary within its own organizational domain. 

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