Word: gross
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Congressmen seemed far more interested in adopting a compromise measure that would allow Nixon to appoint the prosecutor, with Senate confirmation, but permit the President to fire him only for gross improprieties. If the President's nominee were not confirmed within 30 days, the proposal provides that the court would appoint the special prosecutor. Some even thought that an agreement might be worked out with Nixon so that he would not veto the bill...
...writing this letter in response to your article "CORE Staffer Blames Whites for Law Debate Cancellation." The article contained gross misrepresentations concerning the events which led to the cancellation of the debate. It also did not deal with the real issue at hand, that of William Shockley's unscientific and blatant racism. Shockley believes that...
...forbidden any further recourse to the courts in seeking presidential papers. Cox sensibly refused, and was promptly fired in flagrant violation of the President's pledge to the Senate, through then-Attorney General-designate Richardson, that Cox would be independent and could be dismissed only for gross improprieties. That brought on the resignation of Richardson and the dismissal of his principal assistant, honorable men who both refused to carry out the President's order to fire Cox. After an outpouring of indignation from Congress and country, which saw Nixon as defying the courts and setting himself above the law, came...
Hagert states that I have $7000 in campaign expenses, which is a gross exaggeration. I have received as of today less than $400 in contributions and have been financing this effort largely out of money I earned while working as a hospital clerk and swimming pool director and Red Cross Instructor since November...
...Plemel Jr., 43, figures that he could gross $100,000 on his share of the 2,300 acres that he farms in Ramsey County, N. Dak. He has set off on a buying spree that city people may consider peculiar. New machines are the Cadillacs of a farmer's life. Already, Plemel has bought a $1,400 gardening tractor for his lawn, a $7,000 utility tractor for his barnyard and a $25,000, four-wheel-drive tractor-complete with air conditioning, stereo and a contour seat designed by President John F. Kennedy's back specialist...