Word: handout
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...better represented groups. Those who call for a greater diversity of perspective imply that because in the past minorities have been underrepresented on the review, they can never meet the present standards in numbers sufficient to guarantee them a visible role on the Review--unless they are given a handout. But nearly every student at the Law School, minorities included, is capable of doing the work required of review members...
...threat to the country's future. As to the controversial nuclear plant at Seabrook, Durkin favors coal conversion--to a refined brand of coal that meets Environmental Protection Agency standards. He has not shied from maverick stands, and is on the progressive cutting edge on many issues. His campaign handout says, "John Durkin is tough--he's blunt...
...Other handouts are not so blatant, but they give a clear notion of what Rudman draws on for support. One taxation handout states in boldface that Durkin voted TO KILL a cut in the social security payroll tax hike, TO KILL a $30 billion tax cut, TO KILL a $7.3 billion tax cut, and TO KILL a 10-per-cent individual tax cut. "This message is brought to you by Defeat Durkin because you should have the facts when you select your next U.S. Senator," voters are informed; on a coupon, the leaflet adds, "I agree that John Durkin...
...Deal, which most members of the Class of '30 alternately describe as 'a handout" and "a giveaway program" helped codify many of their ideas about the economy. "It's not only Carter but the whole socialist giveaway, welfare state, with its endless social programs and wasteful spending, begun under Roosevelt and propagandized by those like J.K. Galbraith and other college professors who accept good salaries and hope for tenure and long vacations, as well as sabbatical leaves, and yet so hypocritically criticize capitalism that provides this largesse for them," Gordon B. Worcester writes to his class. But Elliot, a lobbyist...
...Force sprayed Agent Orange heavily over Viet Nam to lay bare thousands of acres of jungle in which Viet Cong guerrillas were thought to be hiding. An Army handout for one such mission, Operation Ranch Hand in 1966, assured the troops that "the sprayed chemical is nontoxic to human or animal life." But Agent Orange was contaminated by a byproduct of the manufacturing process, dioxin, which is perhaps the most toxic synthetic chemical known. When a few pounds of it were released into the air by an explosion at an Italian chemical plant in 1976, more than 700 people...