Word: albert
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More than that, in part because of Bennett's broadsides, teachers were considered the problem, which left them wary of the reformers. "The constant criticism is demoralizing," complains Albert Shanker, head of the American Federation of Teachers. "If the Secretary of Commerce disliked businessmen as much as Bennett dislikes teachers, the President would throw him out of the Cabinet...
...four defendants -- North, former National Security Adviser John Poindexter, retired Air Force Major General Richard Secord and Businessman ! Albert Hakim -- are demanding to see 300,000 pages of classified documents. But a Government team has so far produced only 35,254 pages, leading Presiding Judge Gerhard Gesell to grumble last week, "There is a stone wall being built up between this court and the trial. The responsibility lies with the Attorney General and the White House...
Judis provides useful insights into Buckley's conservative lineage. One early influence, Albert Jay Nock, an anarchist and enemy of mass culture, had visions of an intellectual elite he called the Remnant. Another, Yale Political Scientist Willmoore Kendall, argued that the interests of the majority should always prevail over individual rights. A loathing of the left had already been passed on to Buckley by his father Will, a Texas-born oilman who made a fortune in Mexico, only to have most of his property there seized in the years after the 1910 revolution...
Appalled by the bank's condition, federal regulators asked Chairman Gerald Fronterhouse to resign. His replacement is Albert Casey, 68, who steered once troubled American Airlines back on course as chairman from 1974 to 1985. American had been laden with many layers of unnecessary staff and subsidiaries. Says Casey: "I fired them all and cleaned them out." He may have to be as ruthless at First RepublicBank...
...Albert J. Gore Jr. '69 of Tennessee entered the race with the most foreign policy experience of any candidate, sharp debating skills and an attractive television presence. Yet his regionalism, which handed him the Deep South Super Tuesday, slapped him into obscurity in the rest of the country. Ed Koch was virutally the only New Yorker who knew...