Word: counterfuls
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...case, the staff should not be offering counsel to a group or groups who have interests counter to their own. The union can only be appreciated on its own terms. If it can be supported, it must be done in solidarity rather than the evident paternalism. Under this more realistic conception brotherhood, I do not believe we can support either Local 254 or the new guard-monitor-attendant entity...
...Guinea at a replacement camp for officers, 400 or 500 officers waiting assignment," Myles begins. "I was asked to come up to interview. There were two big long lines for interviews, and they moved very slowly, because they were asking these guys so many questions to get into the counter-intelligence corps...
...When I get up to the top, [the interviewer] picks up my card --all the information's on it. He reads aloud, 'Myles, Thomas M., Harvard. Are you interested? You're in,' he says. 'Pick up your orders tomorrow morning. You're going to MacArthur's headquarters to counter-intelligence school'--and that saved my life. My life wasn't worth a nickel, not a nickel in the infantry before the invasions...
Second Lieutenant Myles believed then, as he does now, that the Harvard name secured him a place in the counter-intelligence corps, that a Harvard education saved him from ever having to carry a gun over...
...Sheila Burke is that she is a first-rate manager with practical experience in government and a graduate of the school to boot." No one would deny that Burke is qualified for the job, but the selection of such a prominent (though moderate) conservative speaks to an effort to counter-balance the left-leaning weight of the academic dean, David Ellwood, a one-time Clinton appointee...