Word: dismissals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dismiss the advantages of a parliamentary form of government for the U.S. as going "one step too far." Our system of checks and balances, designed by a frontier community at a time of deep distrust of both royal executive prerogatives and the tyranny of the masses, has become an anachronism. This generation has witnessed the debilitating spectacle of a President trying to operate with a Congress controlled by the opposition. Will it take a political Mount St. Helens to blast us into recognizing the need for a more effective way of governing ourselves...
Peasants in the parched countryside report that many of the revolutionary bands are near starvation, but it is too early to dismiss the leftist cause. The rebels are said to be regrouping and waiting for the May rainy season to launch new attacks. They continue to blow up a power line here and cut telephone wires there in the sort of skirmishing that can drag on interminably, with neither side able to claim victory. "The army has fought the guerrillas to a draw," said one U.S. official in San Salvador last week. "The conflict could...
...drivers decided Sunday to ask Teamsters Local 379 for union affiliation. After researching National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) precedents, the Teamsters decided Wednesday that the NLRB would dismiss the drivers' petition for a union election "in a minute...
...public service employment programs, which would cost more than $3.7 billion next year. They pay the salaries of 1,600 employees in city government and nonprofit agencies in San Francisco alone. Arkansas may lose as many as 2,500 workers, while New York City will dismiss 11,500. "Most of ours will end up going back on welfare," complains Ronald Gault, New York's employment commissioner. Yet of all Reagan's budget cuts, the controversial CETA program may be among the least missed. Says Cleveland Mayor George Voinovich, whose city has 500 CETA workers: "CETA was supposed...
Schubert is slight, talkative, almost theatrical in manner; self-possessed, self-confident, but not self-centered or egotistical. He knows the limits of his talents, and knows them to be expanding. He is a sharp critic, quick to dismiss music he considers "difficult to listen to," or "dentist office material;" but he is equally critical of his own work, and equally quick to acknowledge debts and praise heroes...