1.   A public interest lobby group on Thursday tagged Texas Sen.

2.   With Thatcher running amok through the welfare state, lobby groups are preoccupied defending what was once thought unassailable.

3.   Four of the biggest British companies in the waste-to-energy business have formed a lobby group to persuade the government to grant them a subsidy.

4.   Bob Walker, the legislative director of Handgun Control Inc., the foremost gun-control lobby group, sees such results as significant.

5.   Bob Tiller, director of government relations for Bread for the World, an anti-hunger lobby group, said the new post is more than a fancy title.

6.   A few months ago, I wrote about a report from the California Healthcare Foundation, a biotech lobby group.

7.   A growing clamor by lobby groups to step up the pace is beginning to pay off.

8.   But Indyck also happens to be the former head of AIPAC, the most powerful Jewish-Israeli lobby group in the United States.

9.   He has voted against the tax break because of his overall attack against lobby groups.

10.   If Dole and Gramm managed to reap political benefits Thursday, so did Clinton and pro-choice lobby groups.