Word: deaf
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...knew. He once referred to Tokyo's envoys as "pissants." Japan's ambassador, Kichisaburo Nomura, 64, a one-eyed retired admiral and former Foreign Minister, was considered a moderate and so was mistrusted in Tokyo. It did not help that Hull had a speech difficulty, while Nomura was partially deaf...
Independent candidate R. Elaine Noble, however, disagrees with the idea that students are deaf to non-CCA candidates' campaigns. Noble, who stresses sexual minority issues in her campaign, tabled at Harvard and MIT to register students to vote...
...petition is falling upon deaf ears. Massachusetts is one of 16 states in the nation that bans marijuana for any and all purposes. And in the black-and-white world of drug enforcement policy, the federal government does not take kindly to subtle shades of gray. (Never mind that cocaine and morphine--two of the biggest targets of the War on Drugs--have been available by prescription for years...
...have its workplace governed by the laws that apply in the rest of the nation? Congress has exempted itself from most antidiscrimination statutes. As the matter stands, a congressional staff member who charges sexual harassment can complain only to Congress's ethics committees, which have been notoriously tone deaf to such complaints. (In 1989, for example, Representative Jim Bates, a California Democrat, admitted making lewd remarks and touching female members of his staff. The House ethics committee issued its mildest form of discipline, a letter of reproval...
...Harkin (D-Iowa) lies on the campaign trail about his deaf brother Frank and talks populist while owning a house in the Bahamas...