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- Path: sparky!uunet!paladin.american.edu!auvm!hersch
- Organization: The American University - University Computing Center
- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 21:05:59 EST
- From: <HERSCH@auvm.american.edu>
- Message-ID: <92359.210559HERSCH@auvm.american.edu>
- Newsgroups: alt.usage.english
- Subject: Re: K Street
- References: <Bzqz8z.2Jt@techbook.com>
- Lines: 31
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- In article <Bzqz8z.2Jt@techbook.com>, dant@techbook.com (Dan Tilque) says:
- >
- >I ran across a reference to K Street in a recent Economist. The exact
- >context was that Capitol Hill and K Street would be pleased with
- >Bentsen's appointment as Treasury Secretary.
- >
- >Oviously this is metonomy, but for what? I assume that this is refering
- >to K Street in Washington, D.C., but what's on K Street. My guess is
- >that it's the headquarters of the Treasury Dept. and that this is
- >refering to the rank and file Treasury bureaucrats.
-
- "K Street" is immediately understood by those of us unlucky enough
- to live in this pit of corruption called Washington. K Street is
- the architecturally hideous center within Washington of all of those
- firms that do all the hideous business for which Washington is
- notorious. That is, the big law firms that do the big lobbying.
- Also the same big law firms that provide the staffs of most of
- the big agencies, departments, whatevers of most presidential
- administrations. "K Street" is, in brief, the Washington
- establishment that ends up running things no matter who gets
- elected.
-
- Didn't you folks in the rest of the world know that?
-
- H.
-
- P.S. The Treasury Department is at Pennsylvania Ave. and 15th Street,
- right next to the White House.
-
- Herschel Browne
- "The" American University
-