Word: heavyhandedness
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Donnelly considers three factors in deciding whether he can successfully claim age discrimination: the employee's performance, the reasons for his discharge, if any, and the age of his replacement. One Amtrak official now concedes privately that Keane's boss was too "heavyhanded," but he maintains that the...
One reason for the initial chill was history. He was, after all, touring the homeland of the Protestant Reformation. The West German population is about equally divided between Protestants and Roman Catholics, and includes more than a third of the world's 70 million Lutherans. But a good deal...
Merle Miller is a novelist, journalist and author of the 1974 bestseller, Plain Speaking: An Oral Biography of Harry S. Truman. What is an oral biography? Essentially, it is a dramatic device to present a subject through an arrangement of quotations threshed from hundreds of interviews. The result is documentary...
There were signs everywhere that Carter's plummeting popularity was making many Democrats consider voting for an open convention. Kansas Governor John Carlin told Vice President Walter Mondale that Carter appeared "inflexible" and "heavyhanded" and that while he could well win the rules fight, the result would be a...
But it is not just force of arms that keeps the union whole. The central government has deliberately pursued a policy of relative permissiveness toward Islamic culture, which unites about 43 million Soviet citizens, nearly one-sixth of the total population. Since Lenin's time, the Kremlin has been sensitive...