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There are ... a wide number of special interests who spend big bucks and are unknown to many. The Metropolitan Taxi Cab Board of Trade (lobbying on proposed regulations regarding accessibility for the disabled) spent $84,000, and the Community Preservation Corporation (proponents of weakening the city’s lead paint regulations) spent $75,700. Browning Ferris Industries, (winners of a city contract on recycling last year) spent $50,000. NYPIRG spent $5,634 last year, lobbying on a wide range of issues including lead paint regulations, legislation to increase voter registration opportunities, charter revision, pesticides, ATM surcharges, campaign finance reform and the JFK rail link (see below.)
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[S]mooth-jazz station KTWV-FM (94.7) saw just as big an increase in its audience, jumping from 3% in the summer to 3.9% in the fall, rising from 10th to a tie for sixth. Tied in sixth place was adult-contemporary station KOST-FM (103.5), which sees a bump in its numbers every year when it switches to all-Christmas music for the holidays. It jumped from 3.1% and an eighth-place tie in the summer with R&B station KHHT-FM (92.3), which tumbled to 15th, with 2.4% of the local audience.
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The Borgata Poker Open's biggest event did not disappoint the crowds of fans who left Borgata hungry for more championship poker. The returning field of 248 wasted little time in trimming their numbers. A series of early big name eliminations included David Williams and Antonio Esfandiari. Many of the game's biggest poker names fell victim to challengers who showed no fear of the better-known players or their cards.
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Following up in the tight morning race -- considered radio's prime time because of the huge numbers of commuters listening in their cars -- was KPWR's Big Boy, who slipped from third place (at 4.9%) to fourth place (with 4.8%). Steve Harvey on KKBT-FM (100.3) -- who frequently has fallen in behind Coello as the top-rated English-language morning host -- dropped from second to fifth, falling from 5% of the overall audience to 4.2%.
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