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...Assistant Attorney General William Rehnquist argued against legislation that might hinder the Government's ability to gather information about its citizens. It was "quite likely," he said, that "selfdiscipline on the part of the Executive Branch would provide an answer to virtually all legitimate complaints...
Whenever something acceptable opens up. the lines are long: 280 men recently took examinations for 20 police vacancies. Sometimes the Boeing label can actually hinder. "Saying that you've been in aerospace around here is like having a wart on your nose," says Lowe. To counter that, some 100 unemployed have come together in a group called Talent Plus Inc., with the aim of finding new jobs partly by helping each other to write resumes that stress as much nonaerospace background as possible. A few jobs have opened...
...reputation of a truculent and provincial booster, about as salubrious as an enzyme detergent. Conservationists winced at what became known as "Hickelisms." There is not much point, he said then, in "conservation for conservation's sake." Or: "If you set water pollution standards too high, you might hinder industrial development." When he became the last member of the Cabinet to gain confirmation, Nixon said heartily: "The last shall be first as far as this Administration is concerned...
...favorable, and a bright, attractive girl finds the cityscape stippled with graduate students, military officers, fledgling diplomats, congressional assistants, Foreign Service officers and acres of young lawyers. Among these groups, Washington's divorce rate is high?but not among the officeholders, who regard Splitsville as a state that can hinder their careers...
...that the nation's 17 existing "nukes" discharge heat (he said low-level radiation is under control), Knapp declared that "there is not a single case of thermal emission seriously damaging the ecology." He particularly decried conservationists' lawsuits that block the growth of nuclear plants. Those who hinder power generation, Knapp said, only guarantee "ever darkening skies and diminishing amounts of fossil fuel resources-or an even more hazardous environmental threat, insufficient electricity to meet our nation's demand...