Word: dicks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...committee deadlocked, 7 to 7, on sending the nomination to the full Senate, effectively killing the appointment of William Lucas, 61, as Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights. Republican committee members denounced the votes as bigoted and based on a double standard. Lucas was turned down, said Attorney General Dick Thornburgh in an angry statement, as a "result of raw politics...
...full of snakes. Since then the bureau's investigation -- the most extensive ever conducted into any financial market -- has been proceeding, not so quietly, as more than a dozen traders have been pressed into cooperating with the Government. Last week, with FBI director William Sessions and U.S. Attorney General Dick Thornburgh in Chicago for the occasion, the results were finally announced: 46 traders (out of some 6,000) at the two institutions were indicted on charges ranging from defrauding customers to tax evasion to racketeering...
Washington: Strobe Talbott, Stanley W. Cloud, David Aikman, Gisela Bolte, Ricardo Chavira, Jerome Cramer, Michael Duffy, Glenn Garelik, Dan Goodgame, Ted Gup, Jerry Hannifin, Steven Holmes, Richard Hornik, Jay Peterzell, Michael Riley, Elaine Shannon, Dick Thompson, Nancy Traver New York: Joelle Attinger, Janice C. Simpson, Richard Behar, Eugene Linden, Thomas McCarroll, Naushad S. Mehta, Priscilla Painton, Raji Samghabadi, Martha Smilgis Boston: Robert Ajemian, Sam Allis, Melissa Ludtke Chicago: Gavin Scott, Barbara Dolan, Elizabeth Taylor Detroit: S.C. Gwynne Atlanta: Joseph J. Kane, Don Winbush Houston: Richard Woodbury Miami: James Carney Los Angeles: Jordan Bonfante, Jonathan Beaty, Scott Brown, Elaine Dutka, Cristina...
...warning that drug czar William Bennett's efforts are being undermined at the Cabinet and sub-Cabinet levels by "political jockeying, backstabbing and malaise." Von Raab has warm words for Bush but scorns the President's cautious, pragmatic advisers, including Brady, Secretary of State James Baker and Attorney General Dick Thornburgh. Except for drug czar Bennett and HUD Secretary Jack Kemp, he says, the Bush team is afraid of taking risks and making waves...
Everyone had written off Richard Nixon after he was edged by John Kennedy in the 1960 presidential race. Tricky Dick was in an even more embarrassing position than the Duke since two years after his defeat he was bested by Pat Brown in the California governor's race...