Word: dirksens
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...estimated 385 employees out of a total of 51,000 have designated themselves as having a disability. The company tries to work with people where and when they need it, Hastings adds. "The company gave me an opportunity when I felt I didn't have any options," says Deanne Dirksen, 24, a department assistant based in Louisville, Ky., who is legally blind from multiple sclerosis. To enable her to do her job, Sprint supplied Dirksen with a computer-software program called ZoomText that magnifies the print on her computer screen, and she also uses a closed-circuit TV for written...
...EVERETT MCKINLEY DIRKSEN became the first to record an album while serving in the Senate. Dirksen beat out Rod McKuen for the best spoken-word Grammy award...
...remember the splendid ventings of spleen: Taft-backer Everett Dirksen in 1952, thundering down from the podium at Ike-supporter Tom Dewey: "We followed you before, and you took us down the road to defeat!" And Senator Abe Ribicoff in 1968 denouncing "Gestapo tactics in the streets of Chicago!" as Mayor Richard Daley hurled back imprecations that amazed lip readers across the country...
...which last week convened a hearing to explore ways to protect fans and cities from franchise hopping. "If you take a look at the camera banks outside, they outnumber Whitewater and Bosnia," said Senator Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania. True, but the real spectacle outside the hearing room in the Dirksen building was the 200-member Dawg Pound. These avid Browns fans lined up along the wall in the hallway dressed in their team colors and various canine guises. When Tagliabue passed by, they implored him to Save the Browns. "Paul," begged one of man's best friends...
John Kennedy of Massachusetts joined Republican Everett Dirksen of Illinois to help push Eisenhower's bill to loosen restrictions on foreign aid to communist nations. Johnson plunged in time and time again to help Ike, never more so than on the first civil rights bill, in l957. Georgia's Russell, in his last great stand for the Old South, softened the measure. But a bill of sorts was passed, the first fissure in a century of racism. L.B.J., wearing his silver-silk suit, which seemed to glow in the dim Senate corridors, knew what he was doing...