Word: gathers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Social Washington has become like a tax accountants' convention. Assistant secretaries and agency counsels gather at night with clusters of lobbyists and lawyers and discuss special legislation to help industries and preserve tax loopholes. They also talk about who is getting the fat new legal fees and how to get more. One of the major points in the discussion of Presidential Aide Charles Colson's departure from the White House into private law, for instance, was the fact that he was going to get some Teamsters' law business, with a retainer reported...
...frequently expressed reservations about the value of goals and timetables on the faculty level as a measure of the effectiveness of other affirmative action measures. He says such figures would be unreliable and nearly impossible to gather...
...other women. And male presence -- which often results in male dominance -- can inhibit discussion or even consideration of sensitive issues. Women at this University deserve the same kind of respect that should be paid to blacks, Jews, Chicanos, or any other group that decides it must draw inward to gather strength to resist those who abuse it. But when confronted with the analogy to blacks, one of the Holmes Hall males chimed, "It's a good analogy as an indication of what we think we can get away with. The danger in going into a black dinner is getting punched...
When Nixon ran again for President in 1968, Gray helped gather information on the strategy and organization of New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller, one of Nixon's opponents for the nomination. There was nothing surreptitious about this, but it was curious that Gray later told the Senate Judiciary Committee that he had played no role in Nixon's 1968 campaign...
...quality of life for all our citizens?growth in our total effort to eradicate the imperfections in human society." He was on another campaign trip when an incredible Teletype message went out over his name from Washington to 21 FBI field offices. It ordered agents to speedily gather information on topical matters of criminal justice in their regions that might have political implications. This was to be done, "in order for John Ehrlichman to give the President maximum support during campaign trips over the next several weeks...