Word: dismissal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ruling Rehnquist noted that the law gives the Executive Branch a measure of control in the selection process, for instance, by allowing the Attorney General to decide when special prosecutors are required and whether to dismiss them for "good cause." For that reason, Rehnquist held, independent counsel is one of the "inferior officers" that the Constitution says Congress may allow department heads or judges to appoint...
...debate within the party. Then he switched, suddenly seeming to set his sights on being nominated to the vice presidency. Saying that he had no ranch, no ski-lodge, no oil company to run, Jackson let it be known that the vice presidency was hardly something he would categorically dismiss...
...machinery. But it may not be particularly healthy either. More and more employees are complaining that they are beset during deskbound hours by a panoply of miseries, from stuffy heads and watery eyes to nosebleeds, headaches and that just-plain-lousy feeling. Doctors and employers have long tended to dismiss such distress as hypochondria, but no longer. Increasingly, the grousing is considered to signal a real problem: indoor air pollution, or, as it is widely known, sick-building syndrome. Says Eileen Claussen, an official of the Environmental Protection Agency: "Pollutants in the indoor environment can cause a serious health risk...
...again declared only days before the Moscow summit that the U.S. and Soviet Union should "cooperate on a flight to Mars," ears perked up in labs and offices from Los Angeles to Moscow. Even the Reagan Administration, which has balked at similar Soviet overtures, was at pains not to dismiss out of hand Gorbachev's conciliatory-sounding proposal...
Healy, who supervises all city employees, has discussed the alleged racist remarks with Police Chief Anthony Paolillo and other police officers who attended the April 22 dinner, City Solicitor Russell B. Higley said yesterday. After reviewing the case, Healy may take disciplinary action against Paolillo or dismiss the allegations, Higley said...