Word: goldman
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...traditional as campaign buttons for Presidents to nominate like-minded judges, but Reagan has been unusually loyal to his party. Says University of Massachusetts Politics Professor Sheldon Goldman, a longtime student of appointments: "This Administration has selected a higher percentage of partisans than any since Woodrow Wilson's." Goldman calculates that Reagan has gone outside his party for only 2.9% of his district court appointments, compared with 4.5% for Jimmy Carter and 7.2% for Richard Nixon. One aspect of the political pattern has even the Administration upset, however. Under the longstanding system of "senatorial courtesy," the President generally fills...
...figures as varied as Somerset Maugham and Theodore Roosevelt, Isak Dinesen and Lyndon Johnson have sold briskly and drawn critical raves. The volumes have rescued the genre from charges that it was succumbing to the as-told-to stories of celebrities like Phil Donahue, such drugboilers as Albert Goldman's Elvis and George Plimpton and Jean Stein's Edie, essentially a snip-and-paste collage of interviews. Moreover, these new lives are not exclusively devoted to the scholarly examination of papers and letters. "Not long ago, most biographies were compiled by diligent researchers," says Michael Di Capua, editor...
...December bond issue received an AAA rating-the highest possible-and sold out in a day. An official at Goldman Sachs, the New York brokerage firm that managed the sale, yesterday predicted the MATEP issue will also receive the top rating...
Admitting that the fundraising drive is "long overdue," Marshall Goldman, associate director of the center, said that the campaign "gained competitive momentum" after the Harriman gift to Columbia was announced...
...Goldman noted, however that planning for the fundraising drive began many years ago--even before the Harriman contribution was made...