Word: herman
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...connected to candidates with presidential aspirations. Then there are the "vanity tanks," whose existence centers on an individual, typically the founder. One example: the Ethics and Public Policy Center, founded by Ernest Lefever. Whether such organizations can survive after their original leader is gone is unclear. The Hudson Institute, Herman Kahn's future-oriented think tank, went through a precarious time financially after Kahn's death in 1983, and still has not recaptured the prestige it once enjoyed...
...will a Rochester chemist, William Baum, 44. Likewise the Democratic leader of the Maryland senate, Clarence W. Blount, 65; a chef from New London, Conn., Archie Dunbar, 24; an elder of the Gospel Temple Church of Christ in Manhattan, Joseph Baum, 65; one of Redford's high school classmates, Herman Bonner, 45, of Portsmouth, Va., an aircraft-maintenance manager who did not know he was kin to Redford until she began her research; and the owner of a trophy-making firm in Hillside, N.J., William Dennis Boughton, 52. Says Boughton: "I'll be going to see the joy of others...
Less than a month after North Carolina Businessman Robert J. Brown removed himself from consideration, Todman, a native of the U.S. Virgin Islands who has held five ambassadorial posts, said in Copenhagen that he did not believe anyone should be appointed to succeed retiring Ambassador Herman Nickel until the U.S. has a "policy that finds credibility with the South Africans . . . and the rest of the world." A day later the State Department contended that Todman had not meant to criticize U.S. policy and had been quoted "out of context." In any event he obviously had no wish to take...
...continues to cast about for ways to reshape its policy of "constructive engagement," which has attempted to coax and cajole the country into making changes in apartheid. Apparently, the White House is nearing a decision on an appointment that could deeply affect that policy: the U.S. ambassadorship to Pretoria. Herman Nickel, who has held that post for four years and played an important role as the local spokesman for constructive engagement, will reportedly step down by the end of the month...
...legitimate tool for desegregating schools and overturned laws that discriminated on the basis of sex. In its most difficult advance into new territory, it ruled that women have a right to abortion. "This court has moved into areas the Warren Court never came near," says American University Law Professor Herman Schwartz. Yet when it moved, it was typically with a lumbering tread, tilting and veering with the shifts of the Justices at its center: Blackmun, Powell, Stevens, White and the late Potter Stewart. The Burger era may be remembered as one in which the centrists played the crucial role...