In Keynes's day, many people-including politicians sympathetic to Keynes-were suspicious of the multiplier.
But a quiet campaign led by Bonn bureaucrats and sympathetic politicians has prevented the quick move for which many eastern Germans had hoped.
He then shares this information, along with hundreds of thousands of dollars, with politicians most sympathetic to his cause.
Even the most sympathetic politicians warn, though, that any new Federal aid is unlikely to be generous, given concerns over the budget deficit and competing social needs.
Prior to his arrest, he was contacted by several sympathetic politicians and warned about the forthcoming proceedings and offered safe passage out of Lebanon.
The Church and other faith communities have a role in enlarging the room for manoeuvre so that sympathetic politicians can take the action they know to be necessary.
The Greens' strategy is to influence voters to select individual names on establishment party tickets and advance the careers of politicians sympathetic to the Green message.
De Llano was characterized as a sympathetic liberal politician with an independent feeling for his region.
It unites business groups willing to send millions of dollars to sympathetic politicians to fight plaintiffs' lawyers, often generous patrons of Democrats.
He also worked against Escobar's attempts to have sympathetic politicians pass legislation against extradition.