Word: counseled
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...willful misconduct" rather than a sickness. The VA's definition prevents alcoholics from receiving benefit extensions awarded to veterans with illnesses. In seeking to make their case, the plaintiffs' lawyers are expected to bring up the new evidence that alcoholism may have a genetic basis. Says Kirk Johnson, general counsel for the A.M.A., which filed an amicus brief in the case: "We want a medical judgment, not a ruling based on fear, misunderstanding and prejudice...
...General Counsel Jean Musiker of the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination (MCAD) said that the commission receives phone calls from people who have been discriminated against, but the callers must be turned away because the commission is not legally granted the jurisdiction to investigate the problem...
...trial in February 1988. Harvard's position remains what it has always been: Barbara Jackson received an exhaustively fair and thorough evaluation of her tenure caandidacy. Her gender had nothing to do with the decision, and her case against Harvard has no merit. Office of the General Counsel...
Nonetheless, Reagan should be more careful in deciding which advisers he heeds. By following James Baker's counsel during the first term, the President navigated a successful course to re-election. But with Baker at the Treasury, first Don Regan and then Howard Baker have been unable to get the President...
...neither he nor his party controls the Congress. "To get anything done," observes University of California Political Scientist Nelson Polsby, "he must deal with people with whom he is in disagreement. The smartest way to proceed is to behave cooperatively toward Congress." Stuart Spencer, a former Reagan adviser, would counsel the President to pick his battles with the Congress carefully, recognizing that as a lame duck he has precious little political capital to spend. "If he goes to the mat on every issue, he is going to have more problems," Spencer says. Congressman Richard Cheney of Wyoming warns against...