Word: fairings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...prominent lobbyist and Reagan's former legislative liaison. As congressional hearings on the Iran-contra affair get under way this spring, the Administration might also benefit from the respect Baker commands among his former colleagues on Capitol Hill. Said Senator Alan Dixon, an Illinois Democrat: "We know he's fair, we know he's honest, and we know he's decent." Robert Dole, who succeeded Baker as Senate G.O.P. leader in 1985, called his friend "the right man at the right time at this critical period for the White House...
...courtly Soviet diplomat is explaining to his earnest, rumpled American counterpart why the Kremlin must reject what both sides agree is a fair and useful arms-control plan. They are standing in the one place they can be candid, a small stretch of forest near the villas where, with grave and formal ceremony, they daily meet. Shared frustration has made them intimates, if still not quite friends, so the answer is blunt: "We don't trust you." Long years at the table have persuaded the Soviet that neither government will actually reduce armaments; neither side can afford the risky belief...
Companies are rated by the Sullivan Principles according to the degree to which they adhere to desegregation, fair employment practices, and equal pay for equal work. According to Wellesley's present investment policy, no companies can have a rating on the low, "III" level...
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...Rasheed might have said that Coors had a long way to go. After William Coors reportedly made some racist statements before a group of minority business leaders in 1984, the NAACP started a boycott in Southern California and initiated negotiations with the brewery. The result was a series of fair-trade agreements or covenants between Coors and the NAACP and several Hispanic organizations--Rasheed was a key negotiator of these agreements...