Word: bushing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Powell requested and received permission to retain his Army commission so he could stay on the career track he hoped would lead to the Joint Chiefs of Staff. As Reagan's term drew to its close, Powell, by then head of the NSC, anxiously scotched rumors that Bush would ask him to stay on. He gratefully accepted the U.S. Forces Command in Fort McPherson...
Last week Powell, 52, happily agreed to return to Washington once more, his fears of being sidetracked dispelled for good. George Bush, calling Powell a "complete soldier," jumped him over dozens of more senior candidates and nominated him to replace retiring Navy Admiral William Crowe as JCS Chairman...
UNFORTUNATELY, it's simply not true. The Baby Boomers put George Bush into office less than a year ago. They continue to spend themselves and the country into oblivion, leaving the next generation to pick up the pieces...
Because of Leland's universally admired humanitarian work, accolades for him have cut across ideological barriers. President Bush said Leland was "engaged in a noble cause--trying to feed the hungry." Sen. Ted Kennedy said, "Mickey Leland died as he lived, on a mission of mercy and hope for victims of poverty, injustice, racism and hunger. Wherever suffering people existed on our planet, Mickey Leland wanted to be there to help. He represented not only the people of Houston, but the best in America and all humanity...
...concern voiced by The Times--no matter how ill-placed, no matter how journalistically unsound--was evidenced in the confirmation hearings for William Lucas, President Bush's nominee to head the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department. A former sheriff, admittedly poorly-versed in social law, Lucas was denied approval for the post of assistant attorney general by the Senate Judiciary Committee. After the vote, conservative white senators accused their liberal counterparts of reverse racism for expecting a Black to be necessarily liberal and pro-affirmative action...