Word: dismissal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Attorney General Elliot Richardson, 61, who quit rather than carry out order to fire Cox, practices law in Washington. Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus, 49, who also refused, is senior vice president of Weyerhaeuser Co. in Tacoma, Wash. Robert Bork, 55, third-ranking Justice Department official who did dismiss Cox, was appointed federal appeals court judge by President Reagan...
...domestic purposes as it is anything else. I think that perhaps the President now shares Professor Nye's view that it is the Reagan Administration that is the father of the nuclear freeze movement, and they don't wish to continue to nurture that child. They would like to dismiss it, and one way to do that is to move, as many students of the presidency have often argued, to a somewhat more centrist position to appear more accommodating, to tone down the rhetoric, to come forth with more substantive proposals....I do think also, it took quite a while...
...outsiders. Doug J. Skowron, a first-year K-School student, says "the class is a sort of a therapy. He had his problems with legislative relationships [during his term]." Skowron added that "he continually harped on the theme that you've got to work with these people. If you dismiss them as political hacks, you won't get anything done." Another says that Dukakis consistently stressed "coalition building...
...bottom line, though is the current demographic breakdown and even those who dismiss structural changes voice concern...
...This took a lot of effort especially at this time of year with people thinking more about exams than anything else," Smith said. The University fundraiser laughed when asked if Middleton might be offered a spot in Harvard's development office, but he didn't dismiss the idea...