Word: fashionedness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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A highly regarded Washington securities lawyer who is familiar with the Boesky case probably speaks truly when he observes that "we may well get a whole string of new laws or regulations. Whether they're fundamental changes, however, depends on whether the public will care enough to push for them...
Backtracking from the barbs he had been aiming at Senate Minority Leader Robert Byrd, Louisiana Democrat J. Bennett Johnston last week abandoned his five-month effort to replace the silver-haired West Virginian as the party's Senate floor chief. "The reason I'm withdrawing is that I don't...
Graton, however, does not adhere to traditional techniques in matters of bridge building alone. He also prefers old-fashioned ways of doing business, and has always tried to avoid lengthy contracts, performance bonds, "pre- qualification registration," and other such modern advances. On one job, when Occupational Safety and Health Administration...
When he was three, his father died, and his mother struggled to support the family. Still, with the help of scholarships, Tim Wirth was able to attend some of the nation's most elite schools: Phillips Exeter Academy, Harvard and Stanford. From that experience, Democrat Wirth has fashioned a political...
Wagner said the state senator is "from the old-fashioned school" of local person-to-person politics, and that he attended more than 250 community events last year. "He hasn't changed his conduct in any way--he's a real throwback kind of guy," said Wagner.