Word: elliott
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Capitol Hill, even as six congressional panels continued their probes into wrongdoing at the agency. Although he is expected to win Senate confirmation easily, congressional critics remain poised to pounce at the first sign of Administration retreat from environmental protection. "Whatever stars they bring in," said Georgia Democrat Elliott Levitas, chairman of a House subcommittee investigating the EPA, "it won't matter if they're working the same sad script...
...highly emotional issue in Canada, too. Although Bush had come prepared to talk about bilateral problems ranging from trade to tourism, the nuclear debate overshadowed all other matters. Demonstrators spattered the Vice President's limousine with eggs as he headed for an appointment with Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau. Standing in the 5° F cold, they chanted and waved placards that read REFUSE THE CRUISE...
...stupidest actions I've ever heard of," said Georgia's Elliott Levitas...
Almost eight years after imposing its fierce brand of Communist rule over all of Viet Nam, Hanoi has a new claim to notoriety. "It seemed to me the worst country to live in," commented Elliott Abrams, the Assistant Secretary for Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs, as tie unveiled the State Department's annual human rights survey last week...
...opening remarks to a closing "My Turn" salute by Time Inc. Editor in Chief Henry Grunwald, who observed that TIME and Newsweek have been "inevitably linked as a fated pair, like Macy's and Gimbels, Coke and Pepsi, Hertz and Avis." Former Newsweek Editor in Chief Osborn Elliott recalled the day in 1961 when Philip Graham bought the magazine from Vincent Astor's estate. "All he had was a personal check," reported Elliott. "He said later he had never written a check for that amount of money and didn't know if he should put zero zero...